kcleanup.cpp in KDirStat 2.7.3 does not properly quote strings when deleting a directory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a ' (single quote) character in the directory name, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-2527.

The following security fixes are fixed in this update :

  - command injection (CVE-2014-2528) with patch from     upstream (bnc#868682)

The following security issue has been fixed :

  - #868682: CVE-2014-2527 / CVE-2014-2528: kdirstat:
    command injection in kcleanup

Fix CVE-2014-2527

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
77133	openSUSE Security Update : kdirstat (openSUSE-SU-2014:0984-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
76754	SuSE 11.3 Security Update : kdirstat (SAT Patch Number 9515)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
73259	Fedora 20 : k4dirstat-2.7.0-0.14.20101010git6c0a9e6.fc20 (2014-4135)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
73258	Fedora 19 : k4dirstat-2.7.0-0.14.20101010git6c0a9e6.fc19 (2014-4121)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2014-2528

critical

Tenable Plugins

medium

medium

medium

medium