Bug 645738 (CVE-2017-17521)

Summary:	media-gfx/fontforge: Command injection in help function uiutil.c (CVE-2017-17521)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot <glsamaker>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	floppym, fonts
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	B3 [noglsa cve]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	712156
Bug Blocks:

Description GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2018-01-25 16:30:14 UTC

CVE-2017-17521 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17521):
  uiutil.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.

Comment 1 Yury German Gentoo Infrastructure

2020-04-16 06:42:23 UTC

GLSA Vote: No
Thank you all for you work. 
Closing as [noglsa].