Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in Amarok, which can potentially be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Amarok Magnatune Shell Command Injection
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24159
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24159/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Amarok 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/13492/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Amarok, which can potentially be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error in the
Magnatune component and can potentially be exploited to inject
arbitrary shell commands.
SOLUTION:
The vulnerability is fixed in the SVN repository.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Dirk Mueller
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138499
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