TITLE:
Albatross Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA18457

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http://secunia.com/advisories/18457/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Albatross 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/6828/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in context.py in the
validation of certain user-supplied data. This can be exploited to
execute user-supplied data as part of the template.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.33.
http://www.object-craft.com.au/projects/albatross/download.html

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported in a Debian advisory.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Debian:
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-942

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