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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
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title="REOPENED - xdg-open: command injection vulnerability"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66670#c20">Comment # 20</a>
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title="REOPENED - xdg-open: command injection vulnerability"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66670">bug 66670</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:fweimer@redhat.com" title="Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>"> <span class="fn">Florian Weimer</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to Rex Dieter from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=66670#c19">comment #19</a>)
<span class="quote">> this test case, however, launches an xterm:
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> DE="generic" XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP="" xdg-open "<a href="http://127.0.0.1/$(xterm">http://127.0.0.1/$(xterm</a>)"
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> (note the difference here is the argument is double quotes, note single
> quote)
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> I'll have to double-check if this is valid or not</span >
This test case is not valid because the user's shell starts xterm before even
calling xdg-open. There is nothing xdg-open can do against this.</pre>
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