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Gentoo: 200803-06 Severe: SWORD Command Injection Security Risk

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Calendar Grey March 3, 2008
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Inadequate validation processes in SWORD expose possible threats of remote command execution. Users are advised to update promptly.
Insufficient input checking in SWORD may allow shell command injection.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200803-06
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: High
     Title: SWORD: Shell command injection
      Date: March 03, 2008
      Bugs: #210754
        ID: 200803-06


Synopsis
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Insufficient input checking in SWORD may allow shell command injection.

Background
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SWORD is a library for Bible study software.

Affected packages
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     Package         /  Vulnerable  /                       Unaffected
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  1  app-text/sword     < 1.5.8-r2                         >= 1.5.8-r2

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Dan Dennison reported that the diatheke.pl script used in SWORD does
not properly sanitize shell meta-characters in the "range" parameter
before processing it.

Impact
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A remote attacker...
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