Bug 1183629 – CVE-2014-9622 xdg-utils: Eval injection in xdg-open allows arbitrary command execution on crafted URL

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Bug 1183629 - (CVE-2014-9622) CVE-2014-9622 xdg-utils: Eval injection in xdg-open allows arbitrary command execution on crafted URL

Summary:	CVE-2014-9622 xdg-utils: Eval injection in xdg-open allows arbitrary command ...

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2014-9622

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Keywords:	Reopened, Security

Depends On:	1581323
Blocks:	1581120
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Reported:	2015-01-19 05:56 EST by Vasyl Kaigorodov
Modified:	2018-05-22 11:10 EDT (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	xdg-open 1.1.0
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Last Closed:	2015-01-19 05:56:56 EST
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Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-01-19 05:56:37 EST

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 09:57:31 EDT

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 11:10:45 EDT

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/.

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