debian · CVE-2017-17524

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Priority: unimportant Published: Updated: Sun, 12 Jul 2026 15:01:28 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2017-17524 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (swi-prolog), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): open 5.

Description:

library/www_browser.pl in SWI-Prolog 7.2.3 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.

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