Security News > 2017 > July > Critical Code Injection Flaw In Gnome File Manager Leaves Linux Users Open to Hacking (The Hackers News)
2017-07-20 03:54
A security researcher has discovered a code injection vulnerability in the thumbnail handler component of GNOME Files file manager that could allow hackers to execute malicious code on targeted Linux machines. Dubbed Bad Taste, the vulnerability (CVE-2017-11421) was discovered by German researcher Nils Dagsson Moskopp, who also released proof-of-concept code on his blog to demonstrate the
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Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-07-18 | CVE-2017-11421 | Code Injection vulnerability in Gnome-Exe-Thumbnailer Project Gnome-Exe-Thumbnailer gnome-exe-thumbnailer before 0.9.5 is prone to a VBScript Injection when generating thumbnails for MSI files, aka the "Bad Taste" issue. | 4.6 |