CVE-2010-2809 Information

Description

The default configuration of the Button2 binding in Uzbl before 2010.08.05 does not properly use the @SELECTED_URI feature which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted HREF attribute of an A element in an HTML document.

Reference

http://github.com/Dieterbe/uzbl/commit/9cc39cb5c9396be013b5dc2ba7e4b3eaa647e975 http://github.com/pawelz/uzbl/commit/342f292c27973c9df5f631a38bd12f14a9c5cdc2 http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128111493509265&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128111994317381&w=2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42297 http://www.uzbl.org/bugs/index.php?do=details&task_id=240 http://www.uzbl.org/news.php?id=29 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621964 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621965 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/61011