Candidate: CVE-2017-14604
PublicDate: 2017-09-20 08:29:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14604
 https://micahflee.com/2017/04/breaking-the-security-model-of-subgraph-os/
Description:
 GNOME Nautilus before 3.23.90 allows attackers to spoof a file type by
 using the .desktop file extension, as demonstrated by an attack in which a
 .desktop file's Name field ends in .pdf but this file's Exec field launches
 a malicious "sh -c" command. In other words, Nautilus provides no UI
 indication that a file actually has the potentially unsafe .desktop
 extension; instead, the UI only shows the .pdf extension. One (slightly)
 mitigating factor is that an attack requires the .desktop file to have
 execute permission. The solution is to ask the user to confirm that the
 file is supposed to be treated as a .desktop file, and then remember the
 user's answer in the metadata::trusted field.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 mdeslaur> fixing this in stable releases would result in the user getting
 mdeslaur> an unexpected "Untrusted application launcher" dialog on existing
 mdeslaur> .desktop files. Dialog changes would also need new translations.
Bugs:
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=860268
 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777991
 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1490872
 https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/issues/2238
Priority: low
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N [6.5 MEDIUM]

Patches_nautilus:
 upstream: https://github.com/GNOME/nautilus/commit/1630f53481f445ada0a455e9979236d31a8d3bb0
upstream_nautilus: released (3.23.90)
precise/esm_nautilus: DNE
trusty_nautilus: ignored (reached end-of-life)
trusty/esm_nautilus: DNE (trusty was needed)
vivid/ubuntu-core_nautilus: DNE
xenial_nautilus: ignored (end of standard support, was needed)
esm-infra/xenial_nautilus: needed
zesty_nautilus: ignored (reached end-of-life)
artful_nautilus: not-affected (1:3.26.0-0ubuntu1)
bionic_nautilus: not-affected (1:3.26.0-0ubuntu1)
cosmic_nautilus: not-affected (1:3.26.0-0ubuntu1)
disco_nautilus: not-affected (1:3.26.0-0ubuntu1)
eoan_nautilus: not-affected (1:3.26.0-0ubuntu1)
focal_nautilus: not-affected (1:3.26.0-0ubuntu1)
groovy_nautilus: not-affected (1:3.26.0-0ubuntu1)
hirsute_nautilus: not-affected (1:3.26.0-0ubuntu1)
impish_nautilus: not-affected (1:3.26.0-0ubuntu1)
jammy_nautilus: not-affected (1:3.26.0-0ubuntu1)
devel_nautilus: not-affected (1:3.26.0-0ubuntu1)