Lasse Kärkkäinen discovered that the Xfce Terminal did not correctly escape shell meta-characters during “Open Link” actions. If a remote attacker tricked a user into opening a specially crafted URI, they could execute arbitrary commands with the user’s privileges.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
14 August 2007
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Lasse Kärkkäinen discovered that the Xfce Terminal did not correctly escape shell meta-characters during “Open Link” actions. If a remote attacker tricked a user into opening a specially crafted URI, they could execute arbitrary commands with the user’s privileges.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system upgrade you need to restart your session to effect the necessary changes.
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