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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3584-1
February 26, 2018
sensible-utils vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
– Ubuntu 17.10
– Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
– Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Summary:
sensible-utils could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a
malicious URL.
Software Description:
– sensible-utils: Utilities for sensible alternative selection
Details:
Gabriel Corona discovered that sensible-utils incorrectly validated strings
when launcher a browser with the sensible-browser tool. A remote attacker
could possibly use this issue with a specially crafted URL to conduct an
argument injection attack and execute arbitrary code.
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 17.10:
sensible-utils 0.0.10ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
sensible-utils 0.0.9ubuntu0.16.04.1
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
sensible-utils 0.0.9ubuntu0.14.04.1
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3584-1
CVE-2017-17512
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sensible-utils/0.0.10ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sensible-utils/0.0.9ubuntu0.16.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sensible-utils/0.0.9ubuntu0.14.04.1
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