UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17521
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Summary:
Details: uiutil.c in FontForge through 20170731 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-17534.
References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-17521, https://sources.debian.org/src/fontforge/1:20170731%7Edfsg-1/fontforgeexe/uiutil.c/#L285, https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17521, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17521
Affected packages
Package
Name: fontforge
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/fontforge?arch=source&distro=esm-apps%2Fxenial
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
Introduced- 0
Fixed -None
Affected versions
20120731.b-5
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
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User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
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Confidentiality
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Integrity
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Availability
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