Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:201750780000000
Revision Date:2017-10-27Version:1
Title:CVE-2017-5078 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.
Description:Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Blink's mailto: handling in Google Chrome prior to 59.0.3071.86 for Linux, Windows, and Mac allowed a remote attacker to perform command injection via a crafted HTML page, a similar issue to CVE-2004-0121. For example, characters such as * have an incorrect interaction with xdg-email in xdg-utils, and a space character can be used in front of a command-line argument.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2017-5078
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND Package Information
  • chromium-browser package in xenial was vulnerable but has been fixed (note: '59.0.3071.109-0ubuntu0.16.04.1289').
  • OR oxide-qt: while related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore this issue (note: 'Ubuntu touch end-of-life').
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