Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : xdg-utils vulnerability (USN-3650-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3650-1 advisory. It was discovered that xdg-utils incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this to execute arbitrary code. Tenabl...

USN-3650-1: xdg-utils vulnerability

It was discovered that xdg-utils incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this to execute arbitrary code...

Fedora 27 : xdg-utils (2018-b753813bf0)

New upstream bugfix release, includes security fix for CVE-2017-18266 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...

Fedora Update for xdg-utils FEDORA-2018-b753813bf0

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora Update for xdg-utils FEDORA-2018-efd98d9a58

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: xdg-utils-1.1.3-1.fc27

The xdg-utils package is a set of simple scripts that provide basic desktop integration functions for any Free Desktop, such as Linux. They are intended to provide a set of defacto standards. This means that: Third party software developers can rely on these xdg-utils for all of their simple...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: xdg-utils-1.1.3-1.fc28

The xdg-utils package is a set of simple scripts that provide basic desktop integration functions for any Free Desktop, such as Linux. They are intended to provide a set of defacto standards. This means that: Third party software developers can rely on these xdg-utils for all of their simple...

CVE-2017-18266

The openenvvar function in xdg-open in xdg-utils before 1.1.3 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, as demonstrated by %s in this environment...

CVE-2017-18266

The openenvvar function in xdg-open in xdg-utils before 1.1.3 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, as demonstrated by %s in this environment...

CVE-2017-18266

The openenvvar function in xdg-open in xdg-utils before 1.1.3 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, as demonstrated by %s in this environment...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-18266

The openenvvar function in xdg-open in xdg-utils before 1.1.3 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, as demonstrated by %s in this environment...

CVE-2017-18266

The openenvvar function in xdg-open in xdg-utils before 1.1.3 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, as demonstrated by %s in this environment...

CVE-2017-18266

CVE-2017-18266 applies to xdg-utils (xdg-open) where open_envvar does not validate strings before launching the program specified by BROWSER. The issue affects versions before 1.1.3 and can enable argument-injection via a crafted URL in the BROWSER value. Multiple connected advisories confirm ups...

CVE-2017-5078

Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Blink's mailto: handling in Google Chrome prior to 59.0.3071.86 for Linux, Windows, and Mac allowed a remote attacker to perform command injection via a crafted HTML page, a similar issue to CVE-2004-0121. For example, characters such as have an...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5078

Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Blink's mailto: handling in Google Chrome prior to 59.0.3071.86 for Linux, Windows, and Mac allowed a remote attacker to perform command injection via a crafted HTML page, a similar issue to CVE-2004-0121. For example, characters such as have an...

Command injection

Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Blink's mailto: handling in Google Chrome prior to 59.0.3071.86 for Linux, Windows, and Mac allowed a remote attacker to perform command injection via a crafted HTML page, a similar issue to CVE-2004-0121. For example, characters such as have an...

CVE-2017-5078

CVE-2017-5078 is listed in Arch Linux ASA-201707-4 as a vulnerability in qt5-webengine (Chromium-based) before 5.9.1-1, described as an arbitrary command execution via a possible command injection in the mailto handling component of the Chromium browser. The advisory indicates multiple issues in ...

GLSA-201701-09 : Xdg-Utils: Command injection

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201701-09 Xdg-Utils: Command injection An eval injection vulnerability was discovered in Xdg-Utils. Impact : A context-dependent attacker could execute arbitrary code via the URL argument to xdg-open. Workaround : There is no know...

Xdg-Utils: Command injection

Background Xdg-Utils is a set of tools allowing all applications to easily integrate with the Free Desktop configuration. Description An eval injection vulnerability was discovered in Xdg-Utils. Impact A context-dependent attacker could execute arbitrary code via the URL argument to xdg-open...

[SECURITY] [DLA 217-1] xdg-utils security update

The two below CVE issues have recently been fixed in Debian squeeze-lts: CVE-2014-9622 John Houwer discovered a way to cause xdg-open, a tool that automatically opens URLs in a users preferred application, to execute arbitrary commands remotely. CVE-2015-1877 Jiri Horner discovered a way to cause...