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TITLE:
AreaEdit SpellChecker Plugin Code Execution Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA16511

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16511/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
AreaEdit 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/5599/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in AreaEdit, which can be exploited
by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

Input passed to the "dictionary" variable in aspell_setup.php is not
properly sanitised before being used as command line arguments. This
can be exploited to inject arbitrary shell commands via a specially
crafted string containing shell meta characters.

Successful exploitation does not require that the plugin has been
enabled.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.4.3.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.formvista.com/index.html?COMP=clog_list&cmd=detail&cs_clog_entries_ref=50

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