backintime (aka Back in Time) before 1.1.24 did improper escaping/quoting of file paths used as arguments to the 'notify-send' command, leading to some parts of file paths being executed as shell commands within an os.system call in qt4/plugins/notifyplugin.py. This could allow an attacker to craft an unreadable file with a specific name to run arbitrary shell commands.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-11-08T18:00:00

Updated: 2018-01-08T10:57:02

Reserved: 2017-11-08T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2017-16667

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-11-08T18:29:00.247

Modified: 2019-04-30T16:07:04.050


Link: CVE-2017-16667

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