Arbitrary Code Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package geomview  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1810-GEOMVIEW-267548
  • published14 Dec 2017
  • disclosed14 Dec 2017

Introduced: 14 Dec 2017

CVE-2017-17530  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-74  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.10.

NVD Description

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

common/help.c in Geomview 1.9.5 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. NOTE: this is disputed by a third party because no untrusted input can be used for the injection