Upstream information

CVE-2017-17531 at MITRE

Description

gozilla.c in GNU GLOBAL 4.8.6 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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 6.8
Vector AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 8.8
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1073197 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

    openSUSE-SU-2017:3442-1

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • global >= 6.6.6-1.3
 Patchnames:
openSUSE Tumbleweed GA global-6.6.6-1.3

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Dec 15 20:56:25 2017
CVE page last modified: Thu Dec 7 13:16:20 2023