Improper Input Validation Affecting fontforge-devel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-FONTFORGEDEVEL-1367369
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed14 Dec 2017

Introduced: 14 Dec 2017

CVE-2017-17521  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 fontforge-devel.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream fontforge-devel package and not the fontforge-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.