Vulnerability CVE-2014-2527
Published: 2014-08-26

Description:
kcleanup.cpp in KDirStat 2.7.0 does not properly quote strings when deleting a directory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a " (double quote) character in the directory name, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-2528.

Type:

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Opensuse -> Opensuse 
Novell -> Opensuse 
Kdirstat project -> Kdirstat 

 References:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00015.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/17/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/18/2
https://bitbucket.org/jeromerobert/k4dirstat/commits/1ad2e96d73fa06cd9be0f3749b337c03575016aa#chg-src/kcleanup.cpp
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=741659
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077059
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