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FreeBSD: VID-48cca164-e269-11e7-be51-6599c735afc8 (CVE-2017-17531): global -- gozilla vulnerability

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Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 16, 2017
Added
Dec 20, 2017
Modified
Dec 10, 2025

Description

MITRE reports: gozilla.c in GNU GLOBAL 4.8.6 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.

Solution

freebsd-upgrade-package-global

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