Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting xdg-utils package, versions <1.1.3-1
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- published10 May 2018
- disclosed10 May 2018
Introduced: 10 May 2018
CVE-2017-18266 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:13 xdg-utils to version 1.1.3-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xdg-utils package and not the xdg-utils package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.
The open_envvar 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 variable.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-18266
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4211
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00014.html
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103807
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/commit/?id=5647afb35e4bcba2060148e1a2a47bc43cc240f2
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/commit/?id=ce802d71c3466d1dbb24f2fe9b6db82a1f899bcb
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/tree/ChangeLog
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-18266
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3650-1/