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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-07-11 13:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 16:04
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Summary
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
7 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
[UNKNOWN] minicom Affected: minicom 2.7.1
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Date Public
2017-04-18 00:00
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