CVE-2008-0386 Information

Description

Xdg-utils 1.0.2 and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a URL argument to (1) xdg-open or (2) xdg-email.

Reference

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207331 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00008.html http://secunia.com/advisories/28638 http://secunia.com/advisories/28728 http://secunia.com/advisories/29048 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-21.xml http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-email.in?r1=1.24&r2=1.25 http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-email.in?view=log http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-email?r1=1.36&r2=1.37 http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-open.in?r1=1.17&r2=1.18 http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-open?r1=1.32&r2=1.33 http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-open?view=log http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:031 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27528 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019284 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0342 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429513