CVE-2017-7555
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2017-08-17 | |
| Impact: | Important | What is this? |
Description
Augeas versions up to and including 1.8.0 are vulnerable to heap-basedbuffer overflow due to improper handling of escaped strings. Attacker could send crafted strings that would cause the application using augeas to copy past the end of a buffer, leading to a crash or possible code execution.
See more information about CVE-2017-7555 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score: | 7.5 |
| Vector String: | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Version: | 2.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Network |
| Attack Complexity: | Low |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | Partial |
| Integrity Impact: | Partial |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (augeas) | ELSA-2017-2788 | 2017-09-26 |
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