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Debian DSA-3994-1 : nautilus - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 103717

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Christian Boxdorfer discovered a vulnerability in the handling of FreeDesktop.org .desktop files in Nautilus, a file manager for the GNOME desktop environment. An attacker can craft a .desktop file intended to run malicious commands but displayed as a innocuous document file in Nautilus. An user would then trust it and open the file, and Nautilus would in turn execute the malicious content.
Nautilus protection of only trusting .desktop files with executable permission can be bypassed by shipping the .desktop file inside a tarball.

Solution

Upgrade the nautilus packages.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has not been fixed yet.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 3.22.3-1+deb9u1.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=860268

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/nautilus

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3994

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 103717

File Name: debian_DSA-3994.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/9/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nautilus, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 10/7/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-14604

DSA: 3994