Bug 1526142 (CVE-2017-17521) - CVE-2017-17521 fontforge: Command injetion in help function uiutil.c
Summary: CVE-2017-17521 fontforge: Command injetion in help function uiutil.c
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-17521
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
QA Contact:
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Depends On: 1526143
Blocks: 1526144
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-12-14 20:30 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2021-02-17 01:05 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2018-01-02 17:42:17 UTC
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help function calls (5.21 KB, text/plain)
2018-01-02 17:38 UTC, Pedro Yóssis Silva Barbosa 		no flags Details
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2017-12-14 20:30:54 UTC 
A flaw was found in FontForge through 20170731. uiutil.c 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. A different vulnerability than CVE-2017-17534.

References:

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17521
Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2017-12-14 20:31:23 UTC 
Created fontforge tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1526143]
Comment 2 Pedro Yóssis Silva Barbosa 2018-01-02 17:38:12 UTC 
Created attachment 1375842 [details]
help function calls

Using a crafted URL, it is possible to inject command.

gbg> b *0x56f9bf

gdb> run --help

gbg> printf "%s", $rdi
"xdg-open" "http://fontforge.sf.net/overview.html" &

The thing is, though, the URL values seem to be all hardcoded and not possible to craft remotely (see attachment).
Comment 3 Pedro Yóssis Silva Barbosa 2018-01-02 17:42:27 UTC 
Statement:

This issue affects the versions of fontforge as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.
Comment 4 Parag Nemade 2018-01-14 04:46:42 UTC 
Pedro,

Do you still want fedora bug open? I see this got closed as WONTFIX so fedora bug 1526143 should get closed as WONTFIX right?
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