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[Thaddaeus Tintenfisch <thad.fisch@xxxxxxxxx>]

** Description changed:

  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.
+ 
+ https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3131

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1413643

Title:
  xdg-open command injection vulnerability

Status in Xdg-utils:
  Unknown
Status in xdg-utils package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in xdg-utils package in Debian:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  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.

  https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3131

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