CVE-2006-6979 Information

Description

The ruby handlers in the Magnatune component in Amarok do not properly quote text in certain contexts probably including construction of an unzip command line which allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters.

Reference

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166901 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138499 http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Jan/0015.html http://secunia.com/advisories/23984 http://secunia.com/advisories/24159 http://secunia.com/advisories/24510 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200703-11.xml http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22568 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0613