Bug 1526161 (CVE-2017-17514)

Summary:	CVE-2017-17514 nip2: Command injection in boxes.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	adam, bgilbert
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2017-12-14 21:00:18 UTC

boxes.c in nip2 8.4.0 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-2017-17514

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2017-12-14 21:00:39 UTC

Created nip2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1526162]

Comment 2 Benjamin Gilbert 2017-12-24 20:47:58 UTC

The url argument to box_url() never comes from an untrusted source, so I don't think this CVE is valid.  Upstream doesn't either.  Whoever created the CVE didn't post a report or notify upstream, so it's not clear what attack vector they had in mind.  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security_Bugs doesn't say what to do in this case; should I close the bugs NOTABUG?

Comment 3 Benjamin Gilbert 2018-12-01 16:00:01 UTC

There's been no movement here.  Closing per comment 2.