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...