CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-7467

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2018-07-11 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2018-07-11
Last modified: 2026-06-17
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected]): 7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected]): 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses: CWE-119, CWE-787

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• minicom project minicom (< 2.7.1)

Weakness · CWE (2)

CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/18/5 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97966 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7467 Issue Tracking
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-13 Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/18/5 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97966 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7467 Issue Tracking
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-13 Third Party Advisory

CVE-2017-7467

Description

Affected configurations

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

References