picocom before 2.0 has a command injection vulnerability in the 'send and receive file' command because the command line is executed by /bin/sh unsafely.

It was discovered that there was a command injection vulnerability in picocom, a minimal dumb-terminal emulation program.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 1.7-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your picocom packages.

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

Upgrade to 2.2, fixing CVE-2015-9059

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

It was discovered that there was a command injection vulnerability in picocom, a dumb-terminal emulation program.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in picocom version 1.7-1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your picocom packages.

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
137862	Debian DLA-2259-1 : picocom security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
100751	Fedora 24 : picocom (2017-f942f19ff4)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
100733	Fedora 25 : picocom (2017-ac7fc2fd8c)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
100578	Debian DLA-974-1 : picocom security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical

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