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Debian Security Advisory DSA 4071-1 (sensible-utils - security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Gabriel Corona reported that sensible-browser from sensible-utils, a collection of small utilities used to sensibly select and spawn an appropriate browser, editor or pager, does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, potentially allowing a remote attacker to conduct argument-injection attacks if a user is tricked into processing a specially crafted URL.
Affected Software
Affected Software
sensible-utils 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 been fixed in version 0.0.9+deb8u1. For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.0.9+deb9u1. We recommend that you upgrade your sensible-utils packages. For the detailed security status of sensible-utils please refer to its security tracker page linked in the references.