Bug 1456398 (CVE-2015-9059)

Summary:	CVE-2015-9059 picocom: Command injection in the "send and receive file" command
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	kevin
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OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	picocom 2.0	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Bug Depends On:	1456399, 1456400
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-05-29 10:16:11 UTC

It was found that picocom before 2.0 has a command injection vulnerability in the 'send and receive file' command because the command line is executed by /bin/sh unsafely.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/npat-efault/picocom/commit/1ebc60b20fbe9a02436d5cbbf8951714e749ddb1

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-05-29 10:16:41 UTC

Created picocom tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-6 [bug 1456400]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1456399]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 03:13:35 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.