CVE-2008-1568

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-03-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

comix 3.6.4 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a filename containing shell metacharacters that are not properly sanitized when executing the rar, unrar, or jpegtran programs.

Affected products

Comix: 3.6.4

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462840
http://secunia.com/advisories/29621
http://secunia.com/advisories/29731
http://secunia.com/advisories/29956
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-29.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28547
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41554
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00171.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00183.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462840
http://secunia.com/advisories/29621
http://secunia.com/advisories/29731

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