Bug 1524934 (CVE-2017-17512) - CVE-2017-17512 sensible-utils: Argument injection in sensible-browser
Summary: CVE-2017-17512 sensible-utils: Argument injection in sensible-browser
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2017-17512
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1524935 1524936
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-12-12 10:25 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:28 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: sensible-utils 0.0.11
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:34:04 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-12-12 10:25:22 UTC 
sensible-browser in sensible-utils before 0.0.11 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which allows remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, as demonstrated by a --proxy-pac-file argument.

Debian bug:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=881767

References:

http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/s/sensible-utils/sensible-utils_0.0.11_changelog
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-12-12 10:26:00 UTC 
Created sensible-utils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1524936]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1524935]
Comment 2 Geoffrey Marr 2017-12-14 18:50:37 UTC 
Seems to be fixed with newest 0.0.11 update.
Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 03:34:04 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.
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