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CVE Reference: CVE-2004-0473
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2004-0473

Description:
Argument injection vulnerability in Opera before 7.50 does not properly filter "-" characters that begin a hostname in a telnet URI, which allows remote attackers to insert options to the resulting command line and overwrite arbitrary files via (1) the "-f" option on Windows XP or (2) the "-n" option on Linux.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/16139

ST
  1010142

IDEFENSE
  http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=104&type=vulnerabilities

GENTOO
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200405-19.xml

CONFIRM
  http://www.opera.com/linux/changelogs/750/index.dml

BID
  10341


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