USN-3584-1

Gabriel Corona discovered that sensible-utils incorrectly validated strings when launcher a browser with the sensible-browser tool. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue with a specially crafted URL to conduct an argument injection attack and execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / sensible-utils

Package

Name: sensible-utils
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/sensible-utils@0.0.9ubuntu0.14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

0.0.9ubuntu0.14.04.1

Affected versions

0.*

0.0.9

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "0.0.9ubuntu0.14.04.1",
            "binary_name": "sensible-utils"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2017-17512"
        }
    ]
}

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-3584-1.json"

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / sensible-utils