TeX Live through 20170524 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, related to linked_scripts/context/stubs/unix/mtxrun, texmf-dist/scripts/context/stubs/mswin/mtxrun.lua, and texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-os.lua.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-12-14T16:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T20:51:31.841Z

Reserved: 2017-12-11T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-17513

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-12-14T16:29:00.293

Modified: 2018-01-02T17:44:58.497

Link: CVE-2017-17513

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-12-14T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-17513 - Bugzilla