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Albatross Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA18457
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Release Date:
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2006-01-16
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Popularity:
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5,131 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Albatross 1.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2006-0044
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Albatross, which can be exploited by malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in context.py in the validation of certain user-supplied data. This can be exploited to execute user-supplied data as part of the template.
Solution:
Update to version 1.33.
http://www.object-craft.com.au/projects/albatross/download.html
Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported in a Debian advisory.
Original Advisory:
Debian:
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-942
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