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Feast day July 17

B Bad Taste CVE-2017-11421
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Saint Bad Taste

Hagiography in preparation at the scriptorium.

Technical record

Disclosed on
July 17 2017
CVE
CVE-2017-11421

gnome-exe-thumbnailer before 0.9.5 is prone to a VBScript Injection when generating thumbnails for MSI files, aka the "Bad Taste" issue. There is a local attack if the victim uses the GNOME Files file manager, and navigates to a directory containing a .msi file with VBScript code in its filename.

Sources: news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net · web.archive.org

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