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TITLE:
SWORD diatheke.pl Shell Command Injection Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29012

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29012/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
SWORD 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/4548/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an input sanitation error in
diatheke.pl and can be exploited to inject and execute arbitrary
shell commands via a specially crafted "range" parameter.

This is related to:
SA13897

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.5.10 and reported in
version 1.5.9. Other versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Filter malicious characters and character sequences in a web proxy.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported via a Debian bug report by Dan Dennison.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=466449

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