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TITLE:
tattle "getemails()" Shell Command Injection Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15582

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15582/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
tattle 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/5219/

DESCRIPTION:
b0iler has reported a vulnerability in tattle, which can be exploited
by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error in
"getemails()" where certain log information is not properly sanitised
before being used in a shell expression. This can be exploited to
inject arbitrary shell commands by e.g. attempting to login with a
specially crafted username via FTP.

SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
b0iler

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