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Ubuntu 22.10 & 22.04 LTS USN-6141-1 Severe: xfce4-settings Input Flaw

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Calendar Grey June 6, 2023
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Revise your Ubuntu installation to mitigate the severe xfce4-settings flaw that permits unrestricted command execution.
xfce4-settings could be made to run programs with arbitrary arguments if it received specially crafted input.

Summary

xfce4-settings could be made to run programs with arbitrary arguments

if it received specially crafted input.

Software Description:

- xfce4-settings: graphical application for managing Xfce settings

Details:

Robin Peraglie and Johannes Moritz discovered that xfce4-settings

incorrectly parsed quoted input when processed through xdg-open.

A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to inject

arbitrary arguments into the default browser or file manager.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Ubuntu remote execution arbitrary commands input flaw xfce4-settings

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 22.10:
   xfce4-settings                  4.16.2-1ubuntu2.22.10.1

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:
   xfce4-settings                  4.16.2-1ubuntu2.22.04.1

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

References

  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6141-1

  CVE-2022-45062

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June 06, 2023

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Topics Covered

security advisory Ubuntu remote execution arbitrary commands input flaw xfce4-settings

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-settings/4.16.2-1ubuntu2.22.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-settings/4.16.2-1ubuntu2.22.04.1

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