CVE-2017-17518

HIGH 8.8CVE-2017-17518 · Published 14/12/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-17518 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability affecting white dune (white dune project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.7%, higher than 77.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
white dune white_dune_project	`= 0.30.10`	No fix yet

Description

swt/motif/browser.c in White_dune (aka whitedune) 0.30.10 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. NOTE: This issue is being disputed as not being a vulnerability because “the current version of white_dune (1.369 at https://wdune.ourproject.org/) do not use a "BROWSER environment variable". Instead, the "browser" variable is read from the $HOME/.dunerc file (or from the M$Windows registry). It is configurable in the "options" menu. The default is chosen in the ./configure script, which tests various programs, first tested is "xdg-open".

References

security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17518 · Third Party Advisory

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