A vulnerability has been identified in sword, it can be exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrary commands. This vulnerability exists due to a missing input sanitising in "diatheke", which could be exploited to compromise a vulnerable systeme via a specially crafted URL.
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Vulnerability reported by Debian
ChangeLog
2005-01-21 : Initial release
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