GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2015-58

Advisory Published

Vulnetix · Advisory published February 11, 2015

Updated xdg-utils package fixes security vulnerability: John Houwer discovered a way to cause xdg-open, a tool that automatically opens URLs in a user's preferred application, to execute arbitrary commands remotely (CVE-2014-9622). The xdg-utils has been updated to a much more recent snapshot, and has been patched to fix this issue.

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Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions	Platforms
Mageia	xdg-utils	0 (affected), 1.1.0-0.0.rc3.3.1.mga4 (unaffected)	—

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Updated xdg-utils packages fix CVE-2014-9622

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Updated xdg-utils packages fix CVE-2014-9622

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Updated xdg-utils packages fix CVE-2014-9622

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