Format string error in Debian products - CVE-2011-1588
Published: November 14, 2019 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU35067
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2011-1588
CWE-ID: CWE-134
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: xfce-mirror
SUSE
Debian
SUSE
Debian
Affected software:
thunar
Opensuse
Debian Linux
thunar
Opensuse
Debian Linux
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
Thunar before 1.3.1 could crash when copy and pasting a file name with % format characters due to a format string error.
How to mitigate CVE-2011-1588
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-05/msg00008.html
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-1588
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-1588
- https://github.com/xfce-mirror/thunar/blob/master/NEWS#L774
- https://github.com/xfce-mirror/thunar/commit/03dd312e157d4fa8a11d5fa402706ae5b05806fa
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1588