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amarok — security advisory
The ruby handlers in the Magnatune component in Amarok do not properly quote text in certain contexts, probably including construction of an unzip command line, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters.
- Products
- amarok
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.4.4-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2006-6979
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 20:17 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The ruby handlers in the Magnatune component in Amarok do not properly quote text in certain contexts, probably including construction of an unzip command line, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2006-6979
amarok
Fixed versions: 1.4.4-1
amarok
Fixed versions: 1.4.4-1
Complete source record
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