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ubuntu-cve-2017-7467

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2018-07-11 13:29

Modified

2025-07-18 16:43

Summary

Details

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way minicom before version 2.7.1 handled VT100 escape sequences. A malicious terminal device could potentially use this flaw to crash minicom, or execute arbitrary code in the context of the minicom process.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                    
                      CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

7.0 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7467	REPORT
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/18/5	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7467	REPORT

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CVE-2017-7467 (GCVE-0-2017-7467)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-07-11 13:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 16:04

Summary

Severity

7 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-787

Assigner

redhat

References

4 references

URL	Tags
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/18/5	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97966	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-13	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
[UNKNOWN]	minicom	Affected: minicom 2.7.1

Date Public

2017-04-18 00:00

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Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2017-7467 (GCVE-0-2017-7467)

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