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Debian: CVE-2019-12761: pyxdg -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2019-12761: pyxdg -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/06/2019
Created
06/18/2019
Added
06/17/2019
Modified
02/10/2020

Description

A code injection issue was discovered in PyXDG before 0.26 via crafted Python code in a Category element of a Menu XML document in a .menu file. XDG_CONFIG_DIRS must be set up to trigger xdg.Menu.parse parsing within the directory containing this file. This is due to a lack of sanitization in xdg/Menu.py before an eval call.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-pyxdg

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