USN-3584-1: sensible-utils vulnerability

26 February 2018

sensible-utils vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 17.10
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

sensible-utils could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a malicious URL.

Software Description

• sensible-utils - Utilities for sensible alternative selection

Details

Gabriel Corona discovered that sensible-utils incorrectly validated strings when launcher a browser with the sensible-browser tool. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue with a specially crafted URL to conduct an argument injection attack and execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 17.10

sensible-utils - 0.0.10ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

sensible-utils - 0.0.9ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

sensible-utils - 0.0.9ubuntu0.14.04.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

from Ubuntu Security Notices http://ift.tt/2oJeaZK