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Ubuntu: (CVE-2017-5078): chromium-browser vulnerability

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Published

Oct 27, 2017

Added

Nov 19, 2024

Modified

Mar 27, 2026

Description

Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Blink's mailto: handling in Google Chrome prior to 59.0.3071.86 for Linux, Windows, and Mac allowed a remote attacker to perform command injection via a crafted HTML page, a similar issue to CVE-2004-0121. For example, characters such as * have an incorrect interaction with xdg-email in xdg-utils, and a space character can be used in front of a command-line argument.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-chromium-browser

References

CVE-2017-5078
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2017-5078
EUVD-EUVD-2017-14187
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-14187
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5078

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