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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS USN-1503-1 Moderate: Rhythmbox Context Plugin Exploit

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Calendar Grey July 11, 2012
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The Context plugin for Rhythmbox could enable nearby adversaries to execute commands with your user privileges. Follow the provided update guidelines.
Rhythmbox could be made to run programs as your login when using the Context plugin.

Summary

Rhythmbox could be made to run programs as your login when using the Context

plugin.

Software Description:

- rhythmbox: music player and organizer for GNOME

Details:

Hans Spaans discovered that the Context plugin in Rhythmbox created a

temporary directory in an insecure manner. A local attacker could exploit

this to execute arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. The

Context plugin is disabled by default in Ubuntu.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate severity ubuntu local code execution context plugin rhythmbox exploit

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  rhythmbox-plugins               2.96-0ubuntu4.1

Ubuntu 11.10:
  rhythmbox-plugins               2.90.1~20110908-0ubuntu1.4

After a standard system update you need to restart Rhythmbox to make all
the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1503-1

CVE-2012-3355

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July 11, 2012

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate severity ubuntu local code execution context plugin rhythmbox exploit

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/2.96-0ubuntu4.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/2.90.1~20110908-0ubuntu1.4

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