[mythtv] Attackers can read any file on host via MythTV

Jonathan T Wang jtwang at MIT.EDU
Sun Mar 20 06:17:01 UTC 2005


Hi,

I believe I've found a security hole in Myth - in
MainServer::LocalFilePath, MythTV does not check whether the QUrl passed
in by the client in MainServer::HandleAnnounce contains any instances
of "../"

This means that an attacker could cause MythTV to send him any file on the
system readable by the mythtv user.

Thanks,
Jonathan


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