backends/platform/sdl/posix/posix.cpp in ScummVM 1.9.0 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.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - backends/platform/sdl/posix/posix.cpp in ScummVM 1.9.0 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. (CVE-2017-17528)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Update to 2.0.0 release.

  - Fixes CVE-2017-17528.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
254675	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-17528	Nessus	Misc.	high
120650	Fedora 28 : scummvm / scummvm-tools (2018-9a85d5af21)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
109592	Fedora 27 : scummvm / scummvm-tools (2018-d275e6ff0c)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
109590	Fedora 26 : scummvm / scummvm-tools (2018-3622f44a12)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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CVE-2017-17528

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