Bug 1528415 (CVE-2017-17531)

Summary:	CVE-2017-17531 global: Command injection in gozilla.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	gemi, pzhukov, robinlee.sysu
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	1528416, 1528417
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2017-12-21 19:43:41 UTC

gozilla.c in GNU GLOBAL 4.8.6 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.

Upstream patch:

http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/global/global/gozilla/gozilla.c?r1=1.70&r2=1.71
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/global/global/gozilla/gozilla.c?r1=1.70&r2=1.71&view=patch

References:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/global-commit/2017-12/msg00003.html
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/global/global/NEWS?r1=1.195&r2=1.196

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2017-12-21 19:44:35 UTC

Created global tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1528417]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1528416]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-07-12 13:04:37 UTC

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