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TITLE:
scponly Command Passthrough Security Bypass

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28123

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28123/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
scponly 4.x
http://secunia.com/product/6662/

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in scponly, which can be exploited
by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions.

The security issue is caused due to the unsafe execution of certain
programs (e.g. svn, svnserve, rsync or unison) and can be exploited
to execute arbitrary programs via various parameters.

The security issue is reported in version 4.6. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the CVS repository. Follow the recommendations contained
within the updated SECURITY document.
http://scponly.cvs.sourceforge.net/scponly/scponly/SECURITY?view=markup

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Joachim Breitner

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=437148

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