CVE-2017-17513

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Dec 14, 2017
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Dec 11, 2017

Description

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17513

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