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Mageia 7 MGASA-2020-0446 Moderate: xdg-utils Information Exposure

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Calendar Grey December 3, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
The patch MGASA-2020-0446 enhances xdg-utils functionality regarding specific URIs that may risk leaking confidential information.
Jens Mueller discovered that xdg-utils incorrectly handled certain URI

Summary

Jens Mueller discovered that xdg-utils incorrectly handled certain URI. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information (CVE-2020-27748).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27688

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4649-1

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-27748

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/xdg-utils-1.1.3-3.1.mga7

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Publication date: 03 Dec 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0446.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-27748

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