vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-16926: ohcount -- security update

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Nov 22, 2017
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Ohcount 3.0.0 is prone to a command injection via specially crafted filenames containing shell metacharacters, which can be exploited by an attacker (providing a source tree for Ohcount processing) to execute arbitrary code as the user running Ohcount.

Solution

debian-upgrade-ohcount
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