{"id":"USN-2453-1","summary":"mime-support vulnerability","details":"Timothy D. Morgan discovered that the run-mailcap tool incorrectly filtered\ncertain shell metacharacters in filenames. If a user or automated system\nwere tricked into opening a file with a specially-crafted filename, a\nremote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code.\n","modified":"2026-02-10T04:40:51Z","published":"2015-01-07T17:47:28Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2014-7209"],"upstream":["CVE-2014-7209","UBUNTU-CVE-2014-7209"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2453-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-7209"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"mime-support","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/mime-support@3.54ubuntu1.1?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.54ubuntu1.1"}]}],"versions":["3.54ubuntu1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No subscription required","binaries":[{"binary_version":"3.54ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"mime-support"}]},"database_specific":{"cves_map":{"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","cves":[{"id":"CVE-2014-7209","severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}]},"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2453-1.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}