Published: 05/11/2007 Updated: 29/07/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

VMScore: 685

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

GUI.pm in yarssr 0.2.2, when Gnome default URL handling is disabled, allows remote malicious users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a link element in a feed.

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Duncan Gilmore discovered that yarssr, an RSS aggregator and reader, performs insufficient input sanitising, which could result in the execution of arbitrary shell commands if a malformed feed is read Due to a technical limitation of the archive management scripts, the fix for the old stable distribution (sarge) needs to be postponed by a few days ...

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/26273/info Yarssr is prone to a remote code-injection vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input An attacker can exploit this issue to inject and execute arbitrary malicious Perl code with the privileges of the user running the application Successful exploits can compromise the a ...

CWE-94 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=448721 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26273 http://secunia.com/advisories/27454 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1477 http://secunia.com/advisories/28671 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3679 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38191 https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-1477 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/30728/

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