| Name | CVE-2014-8873 |
| Description | A .desktop file in the Debian openjdk-7 package 7u79-2.5.5-1~deb8u1 includes a MIME type registration that is added to /etc/mailcap by mime-support, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a JAR file. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-3235-1, DSA-3316-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| openjdk-7 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 7u321-2.6.28-0+deb8u1 | fixed |
| openjdk-8 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 8u432-b06-2~deb8u1 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 8u332-ga-1~deb9u1 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 8u432-b06-2~deb9u1 | fixed |
| sid | 8u432-b06-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[wheezy] - openjdk-7 <not-affected> (MIME type setting is harmless on wheezy)
[squeeze] - openjdk-7 <not-affected> (MIME type setting is harmless on this squeeze)
[wheezy] - openjdk-6 <not-affected> (MIME type setting is harmless on wheezy)
[squeeze] - openjdk-6 <not-affected> (MIME type setting is harmless on squeeze)
Starting with mime-support 3.53, MimeType entries in desktop
files end up in /etc/mailcap, which introduces the user-initiated
code execution.