Bug 650892

Summary:	app-office/abiword: Argument injection vulnerability through BROWSER env var
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot <glsamaker>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	gnome, soap
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13908
See Also:	https://bugs.debian.org/884923
Whiteboard:	B2 [upstream cve]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2018-03-19 14:53:45 UTC

CVE-2017-17529 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17529):
  af/util/xp/ut_go_file.cpp in AbiWord 3.0.2-2 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.


@Maintainers please confirm if we are affected.

Thank you

Comment 1 David Seifert gentoo-dev

2020-04-13 16:41:09 UTC

@Security, Debian doesn't qualify this as a vulnerability, can we close it as WONTFIX?

Comment 2 John Helmert III archtester

2021-06-12 12:48:19 UTC

Yeah, let's INVALID this bug. Doesn't seem like a real issue. If you can control USER's BROWSER var then you surely have other ways to get user access.