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SWORD diatheke.pl Shell Command Injection Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA29012
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Release Date:
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2008-02-19
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Last Update:
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2008-02-26
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Critical:
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Highly critical
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Impact:
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System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Unpatched
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| Software: | SWORD 1.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2008-0932 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
A vulnerability has been discovered in SWORD, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an input sanitation error in diatheke.pl and can be exploited to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands via a specially crafted "range" parameter.
This is related to:
SA13897
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.5.10 and reported in version 1.5.9. Other versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Filter malicious characters and character sequences in a web proxy.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported via a Debian bug report by Dan Dennison.
Changelog:
2008-02-26: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=466449
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1 Related Secunia Security Advisories
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1. SWORD diatheke.pl Shell Command Injection Vulnerability
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