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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3994-1 (nautilus - security update)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

4.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

6 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

Christian Boxdorfer discovered a vulnerability in the handling of FreeDesktop.org .desktop files in Nautilus, a file manager for the GNOME desktop environment. An attacker can craft a .desktop file intended to run malicious commands but displayed as an innocuous document file in Nautilus. An user would then trust it and open the file, and Nautilus would in turn execute the malicious content. Nautilus protection of only trusting .desktop files with executable permission can be bypassed by shipping the .desktop file inside a tarball.

Affected Software

Affected Software

nautilus on Debian Linux

Detection Method

Detection Method

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

Solution

Solution

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has not been fixed yet. For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 3.22.3-1+deb9u1. For the testing distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 3.26.0-1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.26.0-1. We recommend that you upgrade your nautilus packages.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)