CVE-2008-0386

Published: 4 February 2008

Xdg-utils 1.0.2 and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a URL argument to (1) xdg-open or (2) xdg-email.

Notes

from secure testing (and verfied here): (Ships a patch that modifies
the vulnerable code and uses sed secure). NOTE: xdg-open-generic replaces
the vulnerable code and runs view-mailcap or sensible-browser

Status

References

• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-0386
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian