The two below CVE issues have recently been fixed in Debian squeeze-lts: CVE-2014-9622 John Houwer discovered a way to cause xdg-open, a tool that automatically opens URLs in a user's preferred application, to execute arbitrary commands remotely. CVE-2015-1877 Jiri Horner discovered a way to cause xdg-open, a tool that automatically opens URLs in a user's preferred application, to execute arbitrary commands remotely. This problem only affects /bin/sh implementations that don't sanitize local variables. Dash, which is the default /bin/sh in Debian is affected. Bash as /bin/sh is known to be unaffected. -- mike gabriel aka sunweaver (Debian Developer) fon: +49 (1520) 1976 148 GnuPG Fingerprint: 9BFB AEE8 6C0A A5FF BF22 0782 9AF4 6B30 2577 1B31 mail: sunweaver@debian.org, http://sunweavers.net
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