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CNVD-2018-00591

Vulnerability from cnvd - Published: 2018-01-09

Title

FontForge uiutil.c文件注入漏洞

Description

FontForge是一款开源的支持多种语言的字体编辑工具。 FontForge 20170731及之前的版本中的uiutil.c文件存在安全漏洞，该漏洞源于程序在启动程序之前，未能验证字符串。远程攻击者可借助特制的URL利用该漏洞实施参数注入攻击。

Severity

中

Formal description

厂商尚未提供漏洞修复方案，请关注厂商主页更新： https://fontforge.github.io/en-US/

Reference

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17521

Impacted products

Name
FontForge FontForge <=20170731

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  "number": "CNVD-2018-00591",
  "openTime": "2018-01-09",
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  "submitTime": "2017-12-15",
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CVE-2017-17521 (GCVE-0-2017-17521)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-12-14 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 20:51

Summary

uiutil.c in FontForge through 20170731 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, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-17534.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2…	x_refsource_MISC

Date Public

2017-12-14 00:00

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