Updated xdg-utils package fixes security vulnerability
Publication date: 19 Jun 2018Modification date: 19 Jun 2018
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6
CVE: CVE-2017-18266
Description
Updated xdg-utils package fixes security vulnerability: The open_envvar function in xdg-open in xdg-utils before 1.1.3 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, as demonstrated by %s in this environment variable (CVE-2017-18266).
References
SRPMS
6/core
- xdg-utils-1.1.3-1.mga6