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CVE-2004-0784

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2004-10-25 gaim -- malicious smiley themes

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2004-0784
Phase Assigned(20040817)

Description

The smiley theme functionality in Gaim before 0.82 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the filename of the tar file that is dragged to the smiley selector.

References

Source Reference
CONFIRM http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/?id=1
FEDORA FEDORA-2004-278
FEDORA FEDORA-2004-279
GENTOO GLSA-200408-27
REDHAT RHSA-2004:400
OVAL oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10008
XF gaim-smiley-command-execution(17144)