Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1393-1 xfce4-terminal -- insecure execution

Date Reported:
23 Oct 2007
Affected Packages:
xfce4-terminal
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 437454.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-3770.
More information:

It was discovered that xfce-terminal, a terminal emulator for the xfce environment, did not correctly escape arguments passed to the processes spawned by Open Link. This allowed malicious links to execute arbitrary commands upon the local system.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.2.5.6rc1-2etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.2.6-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your xfce4-terminal package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch1_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch1_arm.deb
HP Precision:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch1_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch1_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xfce4-terminal/xfce4-terminal_0.2.5.6rc1-2etch1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.