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Prodder Podcast Feed Shell Command Injection Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA20208
Release Date: 2006-05-22
Last Update: 2006-05-25
Popularity: 4,432 views

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

Software:Prodder 0.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-2548


Description:
RedTeam has reported a vulnerability in Prodder, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error in the RSS parser. This can be exploited to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands via the "url" attribute of the "enclosure" tag when processing a podcast feed from a malicious server.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 0.4. Prior versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Update to version 0.5.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=148643

Provided and/or discovered by:
RedTeam

Changelog:
2006-05-23: Added details provided by RedTeam.
2006-05-25: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://www.redteam-pentesting.de/advisories/rt-sa-2006-002.txt


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