Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1393-1 xfce4-terminal -- insecure execution
- Date Reported:
- 23 Oct 2007
- Affected Packages:
- xfce4-terminal
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 437454.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-3770. - More information:
-
It was discovered that xfce-terminal, a terminal emulator for the xfce environment, did not correctly escape arguments passed to the processes spawned by
Open Link
. This allowed malicious links to execute arbitrary commands upon the local system.For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.2.5.6rc1-2etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.2.6-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your xfce4-terminal package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch1_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch1_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch1_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.