CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-7523

7.5 HIGH Published 2017-07-21 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-07-21
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-119, CWE-787

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• 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

Related

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