FKIE_CVE-2017-7523

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-07-21 22:29 - Updated: 2025-04-20 01:37
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Cygwin versions 1.7.2 up to and including 1.8.0 are vulnerable to buffer overflow vulnerability in wcsxfrm/wcsxfrm_l functions resulting into denial-of-service by crashing the process or potential hijack of the process running with administrative privileges triggered by specially crafted input string.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-05/msg00149.htmlExploit, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-05/msg00149.htmlExploit, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
cygwin cygwin 1.7.2
cygwin cygwin 1.7.3
cygwin cygwin 1.7.5
cygwin cygwin 1.7.6
cygwin cygwin 1.7.7
cygwin cygwin 1.7.8
cygwin cygwin 1.7.9
cygwin cygwin 1.7.10
cygwin cygwin 1.7.11
cygwin cygwin 1.7.12
cygwin cygwin 1.7.13
cygwin cygwin 1.7.14
cygwin cygwin 1.7.15
cygwin cygwin 1.7.16
cygwin cygwin 1.7.17
cygwin cygwin 1.7.18
cygwin cygwin 1.7.19
cygwin cygwin 1.7.21
cygwin cygwin 1.7.22
cygwin cygwin 1.7.23
cygwin cygwin 1.7.24
cygwin cygwin 1.7.25
cygwin cygwin 1.7.26
cygwin cygwin 1.7.27
cygwin cygwin 1.7.28
cygwin cygwin 1.7.29
cygwin cygwin 1.7.31
cygwin cygwin 1.7.32
cygwin cygwin 1.7.33
cygwin cygwin 1.7.34
cygwin cygwin 1.7.35
cygwin cygwin 1.8.0
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