| Name | CVE-2019-12761 |
| Description | A code injection issue was discovered in PyXDG before 0.26 via crafted Python code in a Category element of a Menu XML document in a .menu file. XDG_CONFIG_DIRS must be set up to trigger xdg.Menu.parse parsing within the directory containing this file. This is due to a lack of sanitization in xdg/Menu.py before an eval call. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1819-1, DLA-2727-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 930099 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| pyxdg (PTS) | bullseye | 0.27-2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie, bookworm | 0.28-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[buster] - pyxdg <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-PYXDG-174562
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/pyxdg/-/commit/aa4ce1bbc59def6975c9dd1598aafb3ef3fea681 (rel-0.26)
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/pyxdg/issues/14