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CVE-2014-9622

Publication date 21 January 2015

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
xdg-utils 14.10 utopic
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid Ignored end of life

Notes

mdeslaur

beware, original patch causes regression seems to be introduced by: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/commit/?id=a616912e48b7ff1d908852739d16525df79471b9 which is after the xdg-utils versions in Ubuntu