Bug 1585953 (CVE-2017-16042)

Summary: CVE-2017-16042 nodejs-growl: Does not properly sanitize input before passing it to exec
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dblechte, dfediuck, dffrench, drusso, eedri, jmadigan, jshepherd, lgriffin, mgoldboi, michal.skrivanek, ngough, pwright, rrajasek, sbonazzo, sgratch, sherold, tchollingsworth, trepel, yturgema, zsvetlik
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Fixed In Version: nodejs-growl 1.10.2 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:27:19 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1585954, 1585955, 1585956    
Bug Blocks: 1585957    

Description Andrej Nemec 2018-06-05 07:45:57 UTC 
It was found that growl does not properly sanitize input before passing it to exec, allowing for arbitrary command execution.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/tj/node-growl/issues/60

Upstream pull request:

https://github.com/tj/node-growl/pull/61
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2018-06-05 07:46:27 UTC 
Created nodejs-growl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1585955]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1585956]