vim: arbitrary code execution in commands: K, Control-], g]

Vim 3.0 through 7.x before 7.2.010 does not properly escape characters, which allows user-assisted attackers to 1 execute arbitrary shell commands by entering a K keystroke on a line that contains a ";" semicolon followed by a command, or execute arbitrary Ex commands by entering an argument afte...

p5-UI-Dialog -- shell command execution vulnerability

Matthijs Kooijman reports: It seems that the whiptail, cdialog and kdialog backends apply some improper escaping in their shell commands, causing special characters present in menu item titles to be interpreted by the shell. This includes the backtick evaluation operator, so this constitutes a...

konversation -- shell script command injection

Konversation comes with Perl scripts that do not properly escape shell characters on executing a script. This makes it possible to attack Konversation with shell script command injection...