CVE-2017-17521

NameCVE-2017-17521
Descriptionuiutil.c in FontForge through 20170731 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
fontforge (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)20120731.b-5+deb8u1vulnerable
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch1:20161005~dfsg-4+deb9u1vulnerable
buster1:20170731~dfsg-1vulnerable
buster (security)1:20170731~dfsg-1+deb10u1vulnerable
bullseye1:20201107~dfsg-4vulnerable
bullseye (security)1:20201107~dfsg-4+deb11u1vulnerable
bookworm (security)1:20230101~dfsg-1.1~deb12u1vulnerable
trixie, bookworm1:20230101~dfsg-1vulnerable
sid1:20230101~dfsg-1.1vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
fontforgesource(unstable)(unfixed)unimportant

Notes

https://sources.debian.org/src/fontforge/1:20170731%7Edfsg-1/fontforgeexe/uiutil.c/#L285

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