Bug 1183629 (CVE-2014-9622)

Summary:	CVE-2014-9622 xdg-utils: Eval injection in xdg-open allows arbitrary command execution on crafted URL
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	alexl, pertusus, rdieter
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	xdg-open 1.1.0	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Bug Depends On:	1581323
Bug Blocks:	1581120

Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-01-19 10:56:37 UTC

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.

Upstream bug:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66670

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2018-05-22 13:57:31 UTC

Upstream patches:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/commit/?id=11a4bd44692f74a8b8b4615e44dc897c929ef1e5
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/commit/?id=ab071beaabb62ceda3028dd5efa85e8057c29006

Comment 4 Adam Mariš 2018-05-22 15:10:45 UTC

Statement:

This issue affects the versions of xdg-utils as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having a security impact of Moderate. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.