vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-17512: sensible-utils -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 11, 2017
Added
Dec 22, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

sensible-browser in sensible-utils before 0.0.11 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which allows remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, as demonstrated by a --proxy-pac-file argument.

Solution

debian-upgrade-sensible-utils
Title
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