TITLE:
Beagle Commandline Argument Injection Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19778

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19778/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Beagle 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/8771/

DESCRIPTION:
Chris Evans has reported a vulnerability in Beagle, which potentially
can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to the insecure construction of
commandline arguments that are passed to external helper
applications. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary commandline
arguments to the helper applications by e.g. tricking a user into
downloading a specially named file.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 0.2.4. Prior versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.2.5.
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/beagle/0.2/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Chris Evans

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2006-002.html

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