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Re: was: SA29489 CenterIM URL handling flaw
From: Nico Golde <oss-security+ml () ngolde de>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:26:50 +0100
Hi, * Nico Golde <oss-security+ml () ngolde de> [2008-03-25 16:25]:
* Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak () redhat com> [2008-03-24 15:08]:Ad SA29489 [1] "CenterIM URL Parsing Command Execution Vulnerability" CenterIM does completely nothing with received URLs. Maybe the unfortuate "exploit writer" was using XFCE Terminal [2], or a terminal emulator with a similar problem.That's partly true. While centerim has no special URL handler to handle incoming urls it does provide the ability to list urls in a message by pressing F2. If you press enter on one of these urls it tries to open it in an external browser and executes the other commands as well. You see the commands in the URL however so I think the impact of this is like sending someone a message with "please type rm -rf ~ in your shell" so the secunia rating is a bit beyond the actual impact.
upstream patch: http://repo.or.cz/w/centerim.git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=src/icqconf.cc;fp=src/icqconf.cc;hb=b28c6deaef58eb685a2d747b28b6a572122730d4;hpb=ad6ad53ebf791f97cb7337dc79ab2ce8ccb1246f Cheers Nico -- Nico Golde - http://www.ngolde.de - nion () jabber ccc de - GPG: 0x73647CFF For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted.
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- Re: was: SA29489 CenterIM URL handling flaw Lubomir Kundrak (Mar 26)
- Re: was: SA29489 CenterIM URL handling flaw Steven M. Christey (Mar 27)
- Re: was: SA29489 CenterIM URL handling flaw Nico Golde (Mar 27)
- Re: was: SA29489 CenterIM URL handling flaw Nico Golde (Mar 25)
- was: SA29489 CenterIM URL handling flaw Nico Golde (Mar 25)