Back In Time: Command injection

Background A simple backup tool for Linux, inspired by “flyback project”. Description ‘Back in Time’ did improper escaping/quoting of file paths used as arguments to the ‘notify-send’ command leading to some parts of file paths being executed as shell commands within an os.system call. Impact A...

FreeXL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background FreeXL is an open source library to extract valid data from within an Excel .xls spreadsheet. Description FreeXL’s shared strings and workbook functions are vulnerable to the remote execution of arbitrary code and Denial of Service. This can be achieved through specially crafted...