CVE-2017-17531

First published: Thu Dec 14 2017(Updated: )

gozilla.c in GNU GLOBAL 4.8.6 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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected Software	Affected Version	How to fix
debian/global		6.6.3-2 6.6.5-1 6.6.9-1
GNU GLOBAL	=4.8.6

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collector/security-tracker-debian
collector/nvd-index
package-manager/debian
vendor/gnu
canonical/gnu global
version/gnu global/4.8.6

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