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apturl: denial of service

Package(s):

apturl

CVE #(s):

Created:

May 17, 2011

Updated:

May 18, 2011

Description:

From the Ubuntu advisory:

It was discovered that apturl incorrectly handled certain long URLs. If a user were tricked into opening a very long URL, an attacker could cause their desktop session to crash, leading to a denial of service.

Alerts:

Ubuntu

USN-1132-1

2011-05-16

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