Gentoo: 200803-06 Severe: SWORD Command Injection Security Risk
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March 3, 2008
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...Read the Full Advisory
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