Medium · 4.8 CVE-2016-1573 EUVD-2016-2668GHSA-x98q-xccc-62q7

Using a specially crafted fallback art property, scopes can execute arbitrary QML code in context of unity8-dash

Published Apr 22, 2019 · Updated Sep 16, 2024 · Assigned by canonical

Description

Versions of Unity8 before 8.11+16.04.20160122-0ubuntu1 file plugins/Dash/CardCreator.js will execute any code found in place of a fallback image supplied by a scope.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected	Fixed
Ubuntu	Unity8	unspecified – < 8.11+16.04.20160122-0ubuntu1	8.11+16.04.20160122-0ubuntu1

References

https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~unity-team/unity8/stable/revision/2138