CVE-2017-5078

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, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

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
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)