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>> Yarssr "GUI.pm" URL Processing Remote Command Injection Vulnerability
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Title : Yarssr "GUI.pm" URL Processing Remote Command Injection Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-3679
CVE ID : CVE-2007-5837
Rated as : High Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-11-01
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A vulnerability has been identified in Yarssr, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code. This issue is caused by an input validation error in the "GUI.pm" script that does not validate user-supplied URLs before being passed as an argument to an "exec()" call, which could be exploited by remote attackers to inject and execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the user running the affected application.
Affected Products
Yarssr (Yet Another RSS Reader) version 0.2.2 and prior
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3679
http://bugs.debian.org/448721
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Duncan Gilmore.
ChangeLog
2007-11-01 : Initial release
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