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Kdirstat Project Kdirstatkcleanup.cpp in KDirStat 2.7.0 does not properly quote strings when deleting a directory, which allo…

Risk 48
Severity
6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Adrian Panasiuk discovered that the KDirStat (KDE Directory Statistics) tool did not correctly escape quotes when deleting a directory permanently. Attempting to use KDirStat to permanently delete a directory that has a malicious name could result in arbitrary command execution.

The original report is regarding single quotes. Testing with the Fedora revealed the issue there was with double quotes.

Original report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=741659

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
CVE-2014-2527

Kdirstat Project Kdirstatkcleanup.cpp in KDirStat 2.7.3 does not properly quote strings when deleting a directory, which allo…

Risk 47
Severity
6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

kcleanup.cpp in KDirStat 2.7.3 does not properly quote strings when deleting a directory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a ' (single quote) character in the directory name, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-2527.

First published (updated )
CVE-2014-2528

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