National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-2055

Overview

AFFLIB 2.2.8 and earlier allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters involving (1) certain command line parameters in tools/afconvert.cpp and (2) arguments to the get_parameter function in aimage/ident.cpp. NOTE: it is unknown if the get_parameter vector (2) is ever called.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Solution

The vendor has addressed this issue through a product update which can be found at: http://www.afflib.org/downloads/ }

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External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.vsecurity.com/bulletins/advisories/2007/afflib-shellinject.txt

Hyperlink:http://www.vsecurity.com/bulletins/advisories/2007/afflib-shellinject.txt

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20070427 AFFLIB(TM): Multiple Shell Metacharacter Injections

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/467041/100/0/threaded

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 35608

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/35608

External Source: XF

Name: afflib-multiple-command-execution(33964)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/33964

External Source: SREASON

Name: 2656

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2656