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pstotext Filename Shell Command Injection Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA20012
Release Date: 2006-05-08
Popularity: 6,036 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:pstotext 1.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Advisory Content (Page 2 of 3)[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]

Solution:
Sanitise user supplied filenames before passing them as command line arguments to pstotext.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Brian May

Original Advisory:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=356988

Change Page:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]



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