Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting lilypond package, versions <2.18.2-12


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.44% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-LILYPOND-294795
  • published11 Dec 2017
  • disclosed11 Dec 2017

Introduced: 11 Dec 2017

CVE-2017-17523  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-74  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable lilypond to version 2.18.2-12 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream lilypond package and not the lilypond package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

lilypond-invoke-editor in LilyPond 2.19.80 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which allows remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, as demonstrated by a --proxy-pac-file argument.