vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-4649-2: xdg-utils regression

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jan 12, 2021
Added
Jan 13, 2021
Modified
Feb 19, 2025

Description


USN-4649-1 fixed vulnerabilities in xdg-utils. That update caused a regression by removing the --attach functionality in thunderbird and others applications. This update fix the problem by reverting these changes.


Original advisory details:


Jens Mueller discovered that xdg-utils incorrectly handled certain URI. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-xdg-utils
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