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Custom shortcuts can pass the wrong parameters to applications
Custom shortcut and menu commands can be used to activate external applications. In some cases, the parameters passed to these applications are not prepared correctly, and may be created from uninitialized memory. These may be misinterpreted as additional parameters, and depending on the...
Custom shortcuts can pass the wrong parameters to applications – Opera Security Advisories
Custom shortcuts can pass the wrong parameters to applications – Opera Security Advisories OPCOM Team | December 16, 2008 Severity Moderately Severe Problem Description Custom shortcut and menu commands can be used to activate external applications. In some cases, the parameters passed to these...
opera -- multiple vulnerabilities
An advisory from Opera reports: If a user has configured Opera to use an external newsgroup client or e-mail application, specially crafted Web pages can cause Opera to run that application incorrectly. In some cases this can lead to execution of arbitrary code. When accesing frames from differen...
Roxio Toast 7 privilege escalation
External applications are launched with relative path...
Roxio Toast 7 - DejaVu Component PATH Variable Privilege Escalation
Roxio Toast 7 - DejaVu Component PATH Variable Privilege Escalation source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19596/info Roxio Toast is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. As a result, local users may set their own search...
Mozilla Firefox insecurely handles content from external applications
Overview Mozilla Firefox does not properly enforce domain restrictions on content sent by external applications, allowing a remote attacker to execute code on a vulnerable system. Description Mozilla Firefox can accept links from external applications, such as Flash and Quicktime. When such an...
Altiris AClient privilege escalation
It's possible to execute external application with local system privileges...