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 ...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2014-9622
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1581323
Blocks: 1581120
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-01-19 10:56 UTC by Vasyl Kaigorodov
Modified: 2021-10-20 10:49 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: xdg-open 1.1.0
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2021-10-20 10:49:32 UTC
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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/.
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