Arbitrary Code Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package texlive-base (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2504-TEXLIVEBASE-9828396
- published26 Apr 2025
- disclosed14 Dec 2017
Introduced: 14 Dec 2017
CVE-2017-17513 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:25.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream texlive-base package and not the texlive-base package as distributed by Ubuntu.
TeX Live through 20170524 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, related to linked_scripts/context/stubs/unix/mtxrun, texmf-dist/scripts/context/stubs/mswin/mtxrun.lua, and texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-os.lua.