Bug 1585953 (CVE-2017-16042) - CVE-2017-16042 nodejs-growl: Does not properly sanitize input before passing it to exec
Summary: CVE-2017-16042 nodejs-growl: Does not properly sanitize input before passing ...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-16042
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1585954 1585955 1585956
Blocks: 1585957
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Reported: 2018-06-05 07:45 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2020-11-05 10:32 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: nodejs-growl 1.10.2
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:27:19 UTC
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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]
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