MGASA-2015-0058

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    MGASA-2015-0058

    Published: 11 Feb 2015Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-9622

    Summary: Updated xdg-utils packages fix CVE-2014-9622

    Details: 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.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0058.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14932, https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3131

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: xdg-utils

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/xdg-utils?arch=source&distro=mageia-4

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.1.0-0.0.rc3.3.1.mga4

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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