Arbitrary Code Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package mensis  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-MENSIS-264035
  • published14 Dec 2017
  • disclosed14 Dec 2017

Introduced: 14 Dec 2017

CVE-2017-17534  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-74  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mensis package and not the mensis package as distributed by Ubuntu.

uiutil.c in Mensis 0.0.080507 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-2017-17521.