GMS-2016-75: OS command injection

October 21, 2016

Parsing a file with a malicious name leads to arbitrary OS command injection, this is especially risky when parsing user-supplied files on a server (e.g. uploaded files).

References

seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/203
github.com/deanmalmgren/textract/pull/114

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