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scponly Command Passthrough Security Bypass
Secunia Advisory: SA28123
Release Date: 2007-12-17
Popularity: 3,452 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Workaround

Software:scponly 4.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-6350


Description:
A security issue has been reported in scponly, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions.

The security issue is caused due to the unsafe execution of certain programs (e.g. svn, svnserve, rsync or unison) and can be exploited to execute arbitrary programs via various parameters.

The security issue is reported in version 4.6. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Fixed in the CVS repository. Follow the recommendations contained within the updated SECURITY document.
http://scponly.cvs.sourceforge.net/scponly/scponly/SECURITY?view=markup

Provided and/or discovered by:
Joachim Breitner

Original Advisory:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=437148


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