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Gentoo: GLSA-202402-21 Critical: Gedit Buffer Overflow Security Issue

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Calendar Grey February 18, 2024
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
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A vulnerability has been discovered in Thunar which may lead to arbitrary code execution

Summary

A vulnerability has been discovered in Thunar. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

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Resolution

All Thunar users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=xfce-base/thunar-4.17.3"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2021-32563 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-32563

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-20
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: Thunar: Arbitrary Code Execution
Date: February 18, 2024
Bugs: #789396
ID: 202402-20

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Topics Covered

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Synopsis

A vulnerability has been discovered in Thunar which may lead to arbitrary code execution

Background

Thunar is a modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment. Thunar has been designed from the ground up to be fast and easy to use. Its user interface is clean and intuitive and does not include any confusing or useless options by default. Thunar starts up quickly and navigating through files and folders is fast and responsive.

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Affected Packages

Package Vulnerable Unaffected ---------------- ------------ ------------ xfce-base/thunar < 4.17.3 >= 4.17.3

Impact

When called with a regular file as command line argument, Thunar would delegate to some other program without user confirmation based on the file type. This could be exploited to trigger code execution in a chain of vulnerabilities.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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