vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-14500: OS Command Injection

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Sep 17, 2017
Added
Oct 26, 2017
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command in the podcast playback function of Podbeuter in Newsbeuter 0.3 through 2.9 allows remote attackers to perform user-assisted code execution by crafting an RSS item with a media enclosure (i.e., a podcast file) that includes shell metacharacters in its filename, related to pb_controller.cpp and queueloader.cpp, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-12904.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-newsbeuter
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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