vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-17511: kildclient -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 14, 2017
Added
Feb 25, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

KildClient 3.1.0 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 prefs.c and worldgui.c.

Solution

debian-upgrade-kildclient
Title
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