Arbitrary Command Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package xdg-utils  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-XDGUTILS-628812
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed21 Jan 2015

Introduced: 21 Jan 2015

CVE-2014-9622  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-77  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

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 Ubuntu.

Eval injection vulnerability in xdg-utils 1.1.0 RC1, when no supported desktop environment is identified, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via the URL argument to xdg-open.