CVE-2017-2807

An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the tag parsing functionality of Ledger-CLI 3.1.1. A specially crafted journal file can cause an integer underflow resulting in code execution. An attacker can construct a malicious journal file to trigger this vulnerability.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.8 High

Status

Modified - talos-cna@cisco.com

Published

2017-09-05

Last modified

2024-09-16

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Ledger Cli (Ledger)
• Ledger (Ledger-cli)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00031.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00029.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100543
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-05
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0303