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  2. USN-497-1

USN-497-1: xfce4-terminal vulnerability

Publication date

14 August 2007

Overview

xfce4-terminal vulnerability

Releases

Details

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.

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.

Update instructions

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart your session to effect the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
7.04 feisty xfce4-terminal –  0.2.6-0ubuntu3.1
6.10 edgy xfce4-terminal –  0.2.5.4-0ubuntu2.1
6.06 dapper xfce4-terminal –  0.2.5+r21674-0ubuntu2.1

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