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2017-12-14
uiutil.c in FontForge through 20170731 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, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-17534.
| Products | Fontforge |
| Type | Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection') (CWE-74) |
| First patch | - None (likely due to unavailable code) |
| Links | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17521 |