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Enemies of Carlotta Shell Command Injection
Secunia Advisory: SA23377
Release Date: 2006-12-14
Popularity: 5,607 views

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

Software:Enemies of Carlotta 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-5875


Description:
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho has reported a vulnerability in Enemies of Carlotta, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

Email addresses from the SMTP level are not properly sanitised before being used as shell arguments to invoke other applications. This may be exploited to execute arbitrary commands via email addresses including shell metacharacters.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.2.4.

Solution:
Update to version 1.2.4.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho

Original Advisory:
http://liw.iki.fi/lists/eoc@liw.iki.fi/msg00366.html


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