Debian DLA-1819-1 : pyxdg security update

It was discovered that there was a code injection issue in PyXDG, a library used to locate 'FreeDesktop.org' configuration/cache/etc. directories. A lack of sanitisation allowed arbitrary Python code embedded in the Category element of a Menu XML document in a .menu file to be executed. For Debia...

Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-1819-1)

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[SECURITY] [DLA 1819-1] pyxdg security update

Package : pyxdg Version : 0.25-4+deb8u1 CVE ID : CVE-2019-12761 Debian Bug : 930099 It was discovered that there was a code injection issue in PyXDG, a library used to locate "FreeDesktop.org" configuration/cache/etc. directories. A lack of sanitisation allowed arbitrary Python code embedded in t...

DLA-1819-1 pyxdg - security update

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PyXDG Code Injection Vulnerability

PyXDG is a python library that accesses the freedesktop.org standard. A code injection vulnerability exists in PyXDG versions prior to 0.26, which can be exploited by an attacker to generate an illegal code segment that modifies the intended execution control flow of a networked system or compone...

GHSA-R6V3-HPXJ-R8RV Code Injection in PyXDG

A code injection issue was discovered in PyXDG before 0.26 via crafted Python code in a Category element of a Menu XML document in a .menu file. XDGCONFIGDIRS must be set up to trigger xdg.Menu.parse parsing within the directory containing this file. This is due to a lack of sanitization in...

Code Injection in PyXDG

A code injection issue was discovered in PyXDG before 0.26 via crafted Python code in a Category element of a Menu XML document in a .menu file. XDGCONFIGDIRS must be set up to trigger xdg.Menu.parse parsing within the directory containing this file. This is due to a lack of sanitization in...

CVE-2019-12761

A code injection issue was discovered in PyXDG before 0.26 via crafted Python code in a Category element of a Menu XML document in a .menu file. XDGCONFIGDIRS must be set up to trigger xdg.Menu.parse parsing within the directory containing this file. This is due to a lack of sanitization in...

Code Injection

pyxdg is vulnerable to code injection. The vulnerability is due to lack of sanitization of xdg/Menu.py before an eval call, allowing an attacker to perform xdg.Menu.parse parsing within the directory containing this file by using a malicious python code via a Category element of a Menu XML docume...

CVE-2019-12761

A code injection issue was discovered in PyXDG before 0.26 via crafted Python code in a Category element of a Menu XML document in a .menu file. XDGCONFIGDIRS must be set up to trigger xdg.Menu.parse parsing within the directory containing this file. This is due to a lack of sanitization in...

CVE-2019-12761

A code injection issue was discovered in PyXDG before 0.26 via crafted Python code in a Category element of a Menu XML document in a .menu file. XDGCONFIGDIRS must be set up to trigger xdg.Menu.parse parsing within the directory containing this file. This is due to a lack of sanitization in...

CVE-2019-12761

A code injection issue was discovered in PyXDG before 0.26 via crafted Python code in a Category element of a Menu XML document in a .menu file. XDGCONFIGDIRS must be set up to trigger xdg.Menu.parse parsing within the directory containing this file. This is due to a lack of sanitization in...

PYSEC-2019-199

A code injection issue was discovered in PyXDG before 0.26 via crafted Python code in a Category element of a Menu XML document in a .menu file. XDGCONFIGDIRS must be set up to trigger xdg.Menu.parse parsing within the directory containing this file. This is due to a lack of sanitization in...

Code injection

A code injection issue was discovered in PyXDG before 0.26 via crafted Python code in a Category element of a Menu XML document in a .menu file. XDGCONFIGDIRS must be set up to trigger xdg.Menu.parse parsing within the directory containing this file. This is due to a lack of sanitization in...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-12761

A code injection issue was discovered in PyXDG before 0.26 via crafted Python code in a Category element of a Menu XML document in a .menu file. XDGCONFIGDIRS must be set up to trigger xdg.Menu.parse parsing within the directory containing this file. This is due to a lack of sanitization in...

PYSEC-2019-199

A code injection issue was discovered in PyXDG before 0.26 via crafted Python code in a Category element of a Menu XML document in a .menu file. XDGCONFIGDIRS must be set up to trigger xdg.Menu.parse parsing within the directory containing this file. This is due to a lack of sanitization in...

CVE-2019-12761

A code injection issue was discovered in PyXDG before 0.26 via crafted Python code in a Category element of a Menu XML document in a .menu file. XDGCONFIGDIRS must be set up to trigger xdg.Menu.parse parsing within the directory containing this file. This is due to a lack of sanitization in...

CVE-2019-12761

CVE-2019-12761 affects PyXDG prior to 0.26. A code injection issue arises via crafted Python in a Category element of a Menu XML (.menu) file, triggered when XDG_CONFIG_DIRS leads to xdg.Menu.parse. Root cause is lack of sanitization before an eval call in xdg/Menu.py. Various advisories (Debian,...

CVE-2019-12761

A code injection issue was discovered in PyXDG before 0.26 via crafted Python code in a Category element of a Menu XML document in a .menu file. XDGCONFIGDIRS must be set up to trigger xdg.Menu.parse parsing within the directory containing this file. This is due to a lack of sanitization in...

Arbitrary Command Execution

Overview pyxdg contains implementations of freedesktop.org standards in python. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Execution via the xdg.Menu.parse function. When it is possible to craft an evil menu file with a Category node containing Python injected code. The...