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TITLE:
Comix Arbitrary Shell Command Execution Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29621

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29621/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Comix 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/18134/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Comix, which can be exploited by
malicious people to compromise a user's sytem.

The vulnerability is caused due to the improper verification of
received filenames when executing the rar, unrar, or jpegtran
programs. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands via a
file containing shell metacharacters within the filename.

The vulnerability is reported in version 3.6.4. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Do not open untrusted files using Comix.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by hhaamu in a Debian bug report.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462840

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