vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-17526: giac -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 15, 2025
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Input.cc in Bernard Parisse Giac 1.2.3.57 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.

Solution

no-fix-debian-deb-package
Title
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