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USN-1503-1: Rhythmbox vulnerability

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USN-1503-1: Rhythmbox vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/17/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

(1) AlbumTab.py, (2) ArtistTab.py, (3) LinksTab.py, and (4) LyricsTab.py in the Context module in GNOME Rhythmbox 0.13.3 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a symlink attack on a temporary HTML template file in the /tmp/context directory.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-rhythmbox-plugins

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