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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2727-1 pyxdg -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

03 Aug 2021

Affected Packages:

pyxdg

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-12761.

More information:

It was discovered that there was a code injection issue in PyXDG, a library used to locate freedesktop.org configuration/cache/etc. directories.

• CVE-2019-12761

  A code injection issue was discovered in PyXDG before 0.26 via crafted Python code in a Category element of a Menu XML document in a .menu file. XDG_CONFIG_DIRS must be set up to trigger xdg.Menu.parse parsing within the directory containing this file. This is due to a lack of sanitization in xdg/Menu.py before an eval call.

For Debian 9 Stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 0.25-4+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your pyxdg packages.

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