Security Advisory SA29489 - CenterIM URL Parsing Command Execution Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA29489

CenterIM URL Parsing Command Execution Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA29489

Release Date

2008-03-21

Last Update

2008-03-31

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Criticality level

Highly critical

Impact

System access

Where

From remote

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Software:

CenterIM 4.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2008-1467 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

Brian Fonfara has discovered a vulnerability in CenterIM, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to the improper handling of URLs received via a chat message. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands on a vulnerable system by tricking the user into opening a specially crafted URL containing shell escape characters.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 4.22.3. Prior versions may also be affected.

Solution
Update to version 4.22.4.

Provided and/or discovered by
Brian Fonfara

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Original Advisory
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/5283

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