High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Dec 14, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-17521

Description

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.

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Affected products

Fontforge/Fontforge2 versions
cpe:2.3:a:fontforge:fontforge:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:fontforge:fontforge:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=20170731
- (no CPE)range: <=20170731
osv-coords3 versions
pkg:rpm/opensuse/fontforge&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.6 pkg:rpm/opensuse/fontforge&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed pkg:rpm/suse/fontforge&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Desktop%20Applications%2015%20SP6
< 20200314-150200.3.9.1+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: < 20200314-150200.3.9.1
- (no CPE)range: < 20230101-6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 20200314-150200.3.9.1

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References

security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17521nvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory

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