Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Mandriva, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code. These issues are caused by errors in Xdg-utils. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2008-0342

Affected Products

Mandriva Linux 2007.1
Mandriva Linux 2008.0

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :

Mandriva Linux 2007.1:
87a609bef7d4f1fa89f679f799ab894d 2007.1/i586/xdg-utils-1.0.1-3.1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
91ece389fe517eb37340dab3fdb80b80 2007.1/SRPMS/xdg-utils-1.0.1-3.1mdv2007.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007.1/X86_64:
a5678edc7717df385ff063cd3dd8d1ed 2007.1/x86_64/xdg-utils-1.0.1-3.1mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
91ece389fe517eb37340dab3fdb80b80 2007.1/SRPMS/xdg-utils-1.0.1-3.1mdv2007.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.0:
8ae9d8bf4d89f62326e06ed19d89642d 2008.0/i586/xdg-utils-1.0.2-3.1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm
e69a33c4cdead90fa44d021902722411 2008.0/SRPMS/xdg-utils-1.0.2-3.1mdv2008.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.0/X86_64:
7e8c83cb1957521497ceff756a0ea79f 2008.0/x86_64/xdg-utils-1.0.2-3.1mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm
e69a33c4cdead90fa44d021902722411 2008.0/SRPMS/xdg-utils-1.0.2-3.1mdv2008.0.src.rpm

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0379
http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/security-announce/2008-02/msg00001.php

ChangeLog

2008-02-01 : Initial release

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