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TITLE:
cbrPager Archive Handling Arbitrary Command Execution

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30417

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30417/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
cbrPager 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/18845/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in cbrPager, which can be exploited
by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when extracting archives
via the "system()" function. This can be exploited to execute
arbitrary commands via an archive containing shell metacharacters
within the filename.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 0.9.17.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.9.17.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Mamoru Tasaka.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=601538&group_id=119647

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448285

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