oss-security - SA29489 CenterIM URL handling flaw

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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:13:43 +0100
From: Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak@...hat.com>
To: Secunia Research <vuln@...unia.com>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: SA29489 CenterIM URL handling flaw

Hi,

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.

[1] http://secunia.com/advisories/29489/
[2] http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3383

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Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team)

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