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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201701-09">
  <title>Xdg-Utils: Command injection</title>
  <synopsis>A command injection vulnerability in Xdg-Utils may allow for the
    execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">xdg-utils</product>
  <announced>2017-01-01</announced>
  <revised count="1">2017-01-01</revised>
  <bug>472888</bug>
  <access>local, remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="x11-misc/xdg-utils" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.1.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.1.1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Xdg-Utils is a set of tools allowing all applications to easily
      integrate with the Free Desktop configuration.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>An eval injection vulnerability was discovered in Xdg-Utils.</p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A context-dependent attacker could execute arbitrary code via the URL
      argument to xdg-open.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Xdg-Utils users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=x11-misc/xdg-utils-1.1.1"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-9622">CVE-2014-9622</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-01-01T12:56:54Z">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-01-01T16:34:46Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>