Re: CVE Request: xdg-utils: xdg-open: command injection vulnerability

[cve-assign () mitre org]

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> Another command injection vulnerability was reported to the Debian
> bugtracker. The constraints to exploit this are similar to the ones
> for CVE-2014-9622.
>
> Debian Bug: https://bugs.debian.org/777722
> Upstream Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89129
>
> Jiri Horner created as well a patch for this issue, which is attached
> to the original bug and attached also a PoC.
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;filename=xdg-open.diff;att=1;bug=777722

Use CVE-2015-1877 for this issue in which the file variable has a
value from an unintended scope.

> apparently not very local in this case (maybe also dash problem?)

Our understanding from
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=777722#12 is that
the report has not identified a vulnerability (or even a bug) in dash.

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