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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-3056-1 exo -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

22 Jun 2022

Affected Packages:

exo

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2022-32278.

More information:

It was discovered that there was an issue in XFCE where allowed attackers could execute arbitrary code because xdg-open could execute a .desktop file on an attacker-controlled FTP server.

• CVE-2022-32278

  XFCE 4.16 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code because xdg-open can execute a .desktop file on an attacker-controlled FTP server.

For Debian 9 Stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 0.10.7-1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your exo packages.

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