Debian DSA-4071-1 : sensible-utils - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 105431

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Gabriel Corona reported that sensible-browser from sensible-utils, a collection of small utilities used to sensibly select and spawn an appropriate browser, editor or pager, does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, potentially allowing a remote attacker to conduct argument-injection attacks if a user is tricked into processing a specially crafted URL.

Solution

Upgrade the sensible-utils packages.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 0.0.9+deb8u1.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.0.9+deb9u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 105431

File Name: debian_DSA-4071.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 12/26/2017

Updated: 11/11/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-17512

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:sensible-utils, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/21/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-17512

DSA: 4071

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