DSA-1393-1 xfce4-terminal -- insecure execution

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 0.2.5.6rc1-2etch4.

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_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch4.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch4.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch4_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch4_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch4_arm.deb

HP Precision:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch4_hppa.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch4_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch4_ia64.deb

Big-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch4_mips.deb

Little-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch4_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch4_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch4_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch4_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.