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CVE-2015-0855 (GCVE-0-2015-0855)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-03-23 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 04:26
VLAI
Summary
The _mediaLibraryPlayCb function in mainwindow.py in pitivi before 0.95 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in a file path.
CWE
  • n/a
References
Date Public
2015-12-23 00:00
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