CVE-2008-5718

The papd daemon in Netatalk before 2.0.4-beta2, when using certain variables in a pipe command for the print file, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a print request, as demonstrated using a crafted Title...

CVE-2008-5718

Netatalk CVE-2008-5718 affects the papd daemon prior to 2.0.4-beta2, where using certain variables in a pipe command for the print file lets remote attackers execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a print request (e.g., crafted Title). The vulnerability is mitigated by updating to...

CVE-2008-5718

The papd daemon in Netatalk before 2.0.4-beta2, when using certain variables in a pipe command for the print file, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a print request, as demonstrated using a crafted Title...

netatalk -- arbitrary command execution in papd daemon

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in Netatalk, which potentially can be exploited by malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to the papd daemon improperly sanitising several received parameters before passing them in a call to popen. Thi...