| Name | CVE-2017-5078 |
| Description | Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Blink's mailto: handling in Google Chrome prior to 59.0.3071.86 for Linux, Windows, and Mac allowed a remote attacker to perform command injection via a crafted HTML page, a similar issue to CVE-2004-0121. For example, characters such as * have an incorrect interaction with xdg-email in xdg-utils, and a space character can be used in front of a command-line argument. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| chromium-browser (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 57.0.2987.98-1~deb8u1 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 71.0.3578.80-1~deb9u1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| chromium-browser | source | wheezy | (unfixed) | end-of-life | ||
| chromium-browser | source | jessie | (unfixed) | end-of-life | ||
| chromium-browser | source | (unstable) | 59.0.3071.86-1 |
[jessie] - chromium-browser <end-of-life> (End of life, see DSA 4020)
[wheezy] - chromium-browser <end-of-life> (Not supported in Wheezy)