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susehelp - remote command execution

Package(s):susehelp CVE #(s):
Created:January 20, 2003 Updated:January 22, 2003
Description: During a code review of the susehelp package the SuSE Security Team recognized that the security checks done by the susehelp CGI scripts are insufficient. Remote attackers can insert certain characters in CGI queries to the susehelp system tricking it into executing arbitrary code as the "wwwrun" user. Please note that this is only a vulnerability if you have a web server running and configured to allow access to the susehelp system by remote sites.
Alerts:
SuSE SuSE-SA:2003:005 2003-01-20

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