Amarok Magnatune Shell Command Injection
Secunia Advisory: SA24159
Release Date: 2007-02-15
Popularity: 6,189 views

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

Software:Amarok 1.x

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Amarok, which can potentially be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error in the Magnatune component and can potentially be exploited to inject arbitrary shell commands.

Solution:
The vulnerability is fixed in the SVN repository.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Dirk Mueller

Original Advisory:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138499


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