Executive Summary

Summary
Title Xfce Terminal: Remote arbitrary code execution
Informations
Name GLSA-200708-07 First vendor Publication 2007-08-11
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2007-08-11
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 7.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 7.8 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerability has been discovered in the Xfce Terminal program, allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code.

Background

Xfce Terminal is a console tool for the Xfce desktop environment.

Description

Lasse Karkkainen discovered that the function terminal_helper_execute()
in file terminal-helper.c does not properly escape the URIs before processing.

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted link, possibly leading to the remote execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Xfce Terminal. Note that the exploit code depends on the browser used to open the crafted link.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Xfce Terminal users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=xfce-extra/terminal-0.2.6_p25931"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2007-3770 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3770

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200708-07.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200708-07.xml

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20457
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20457
Title: DSA-1393-1 xfce4-terminal - insecure execution
Description: It was discovered that xfce-terminal, a terminal emulator for the xfce environment, did not correctly escape arguments passed to the processes spawned by <q>Open Link</q>. This allowed malicious links to execute arbitrary commands upon the local system.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1393-1
CVE-2007-3770
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
 Product(s): xfce4-terminal
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-03-23 Name : Ubuntu Update for xfce4-terminal vulnerability USN-497-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_497_1.nasl
2009-02-27 Name : Fedora Update for Terminal FEDORA-2007-1620
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2007_1620_Terminal_fc7.nasl
2009-02-27 Name : Fedora Update for Terminal FEDORA-2007-4385
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2007_4385_Terminal_fc7.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200708-07 (terminal)
File : nvt/glsa_200708_07.nasl
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1393-1 (xfce4-terminal)
File : nvt/deb_1393_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
38082 Xfce Terminal terminal/terminal.c terminal_helper_execute FunctionOpen Crafte...

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2007-11-10 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-497-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-11-06 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2007-1620.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-10-25 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1393.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-08-13 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200708-07.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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