CVE-2017-14500

Description

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command in the podcast playback function of Podbeuter in Newsbeuter 0.3 through 2.9 allows remote attackers to perform user-assisted code execution by crafting an RSS item with a media enclosure (i.e., a podcast file) that includes shell metacharacters in its filename, related to pb_controller.cpp and queueloader.cpp, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-12904.

Predictions

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

References

• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/09/16/1
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3977
• https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter/commit/26f5a4350f3ab5507bb8727051c87bb04660f333
• https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter/commit/c8fea2f60c18ed30bdd1bb6f798e994e51a58260
• https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter/issues/598
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4585-1/
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/09/16/1
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3977
• https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter/commit/26f5a4350f3ab5507bb8727051c87bb04660f333
• https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter/commit/c8fea2f60c18ed30bdd1bb6f798e994e51a58260
• https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter/issues/598
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4585-1/

CWEs

CWE-78

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