Bug#988394: thunar: CVE-2021-32563

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Source: thunar
Version: 4.16.4-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil@debian.org, Debian Security Team <team@security.debian.org>
Control: found -1 4.16.3-1

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for thunar.

CVE-2021-32563[0]:
| An issue was discovered in Thunar before 4.16.7 and 4.17.x before
| 4.17.2. When called with a regular file as a command-line argument, it
| delegates to a different program (based on the file type) without user
| confirmation. This could be used to achieve code execution.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-32563
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-32563
[1] https://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=162058938307965&w=2

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore