24938 : Beagle External Helper Commandline Argument Injection
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6 months ago

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Disclosure

Apr 25, 2006

Discovery

Unknown

Dates

Exploit

Unknown

Solution

Unknown

Description

Beagle contains a flaw that may allow a malicious user to pass argbitrary arguments to helper applications. The issue is triggered when Beagle, during its indexing process, launches helper applications. It is possible that the flaw may allow arbitrary code exection, resulting in a loss of integrity.

Classification

Location: Local Access Required
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Exploit: Exploit Unknown

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.2.5 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Beagle

Beagle

0.2.4

References

Bugtraq ID: 17611
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/beagle/ChangeLog?rev=1.339&view=markup
Other Advisory URL: http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2006-002.html
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_28.html
Secunia Advisory ID: 19778 19781 19897
CVE ID: 2006-1865 (see also: NVD)
Vendor URL: http://www.beagle-project.org/Main_Page

Credit

Chris Evans - scarybeastsgmail.com -

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