Bug 1456398 (CVE-2015-9059) - CVE-2015-9059 picocom: Command injection in the "send and receive file" command
Summary: CVE-2015-9059 picocom: Command injection in the "send and receive file" command
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2015-9059
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1456399 1456400
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-05-29 10:16 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:13 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: picocom 2.0
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:13:35 UTC
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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.
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