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Secunia Security Advisory 28638

Secunia Security Advisory 28638
Posted Feb 1, 2008
Authored by Secunia | Site secunia.com

Secunia Security Advisory - Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Xdg-utils, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

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Secunia Security Advisory 28638

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A new version (0.9.0.0 - Release Candidate 1) of the free Secunia PSI
has been released. The new version includes many new and advanced
features, which makes it even easier to stay patched.

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TITLE:
Xdg-utils Command Injection Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28638

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28638/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Xdg-utils 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/17393/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Xdg-utils, which can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to the "xgd-open" and "xdg-email"
scripts not correctly sanitising parameters before using them in a
sed call. This can be exploited to inject and execute shell commands
if e.g. a malicious URL is passed to the affected scripts.

Successful exploitation requires that the scripts are not used in a
KDE, Gnome, or XFCE session.

The vulnerabilities are reported in version 1.0.2. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the CVS repository:
http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-email?r1=1.36&r2=1.37
http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-open?r1=1.32&r2=1.33

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported in a Red Hat bug by Miroslav Lichvar.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-0386

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About:
This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help
everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest
vulnerabilities.

Subscribe:
http://secunia.com/secunia_security_advisories/

Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.)
http://secunia.com/about_secunia_advisories/


Please Note:
Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by
clicking the link.
Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories.
Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only
use those supplied by the vendor.

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