Debian: DSA 1393-1 Critical: Xfce4-Terminal Command Execution Issue
debian
October 23, 2007
It was discovered that xfce-terminal, a terminal emulater for the xfce
environment, did not correctly escape arguments passed to the processes
spawned by "Open Link"
Topics Covered
Summary
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.
Upgrade instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
Size/MD5 checksum: 973 a767bcd32857b6dcaf9408bdb4de3f4d
Size/MD5 checksum: 13295 a1acf7fdea075e053c0bd84d0c8348f1
Size/MD5 checksum: 1931925 25f5c03da6d048f68db208ac97cd4b78
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size/MD5 checksum: 1243...
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