CVE-2006-6979 (GCVE-0-2006-6979)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-02-08 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 20:50
VLAI
Summary
The ruby handlers in the Magnatune component in Amarok do not properly quote text in certain contexts, probably including construction of an unzip command line, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/23984 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0613 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166901 x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/24510 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22568 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138499 x_refsource_MISC
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200703-11.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://secunia.com/advisories/24159 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Date Public
2006-01-27 00:00
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