CVE-2017-7467

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2017-04-18
CWE:
CWE-787
Bugzilla:
1442099: CVE-2017-7467 minicom: Out of bounds write in vt100.c
A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way minicom 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.

Find out more about CVE-2017-7467 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 7
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 minicom Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 minicom Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 minicom Will not fix

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Alexander Peslyak (Openwall) for reporting this issue.

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