CVE-2006-6979

Summary

The ruby handlers in the Magnatune component in Amarok do not properly quote text in certain contexts, probably including construction of an unzip command line, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• n/a

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/23984
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0613
• http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Jan/0015.html
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166901
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24510
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22568
• http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138499
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200703-11.xml
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24159

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/23984
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0613
• http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Jan/0015.html
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166901
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24510
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22568
• http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138499
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200703-11.xml
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24159

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