Bug 1526158 (CVE-2017-17517)

Summary:	CVE-2017-17517 sylpheed: Command injection in libsylph/utils.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	christoph.wickert, dan, i, itamar
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2017-12-14 20:57:12 UTC

libsylph/utils.c in Sylpheed through 3.6 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.

References:

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17517

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2017-12-14 20:57:28 UTC

Created sylpheed tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1526159]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1526160]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 03:34:28 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.