USN-497-1: xfce4-terminal vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 7.04
• Ubuntu 6.10
• Ubuntu 6.06

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.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 7.04

• xfce4-terminal - 0.2.6-0ubuntu3.1

Ubuntu 6.10

• xfce4-terminal - 0.2.5.4-0ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 6.06

• xfce4-terminal - 0.2.5+r21674-0ubuntu2.1

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

References

• CVE-2007-3770