rpm: Command injection in rpmuncompress doUntar() via unescaped archive top-level directory name in popen() shell command

A command injection vulnerability was discovered in the rpmuncompress utility of RPM. When extracting certain archive formats ZIP, 7z, GEM to a specified destination directory, the tool inserts the archive's top-level folder name into a shell command without properly sanitizing it. A specially...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-44604

A command injection vulnerability was discovered in the rpmuncompress utility of RPM. When extracting certain archive formats ZIP, 7z, GEM to a specified destination directory, the tool inserts the archive's top-level folder name into a shell command without properly sanitizing it. A specially...

CVE-2026-44604

A command injection vulnerability was discovered in the rpmuncompress utility of RPM. When extracting certain archive formats ZIP, 7z, GEM to a specified destination directory, the tool inserts the archive's top-level folder name into a shell command without properly sanitizing it. A specially...

GemStuffer Abuses 150+ RubyGems to Exfiltrate Scraped U.K. Council Portal Data

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign dubbed GemStuffer that has targeted the RubyGems repository with more than 150 gems that use the registry as a data exfiltration channel rather than for malware distribution. "The packages do not appear designed for mass developer...