Augeas versions up to and including 1.8.0 are vulnerable to heap-based buffer overflow due to improper handling of escaped strings. Attacker could send crafted strings that would cause the application using augeas to copy past the end of a buffer, leading to a crash or possible code execution.
References
Link | Resource |
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http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3949 | |
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100378 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2788 | |
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2403 | |
https://github.com/hercules-team/augeas/pull/480 | Third Party Advisory |
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2017-7555 |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2017-08-17T00:00:00
Updated: 2019-08-07T13:06:20
Reserved: 2017-04-05T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-7555
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2017-08-17T19:29:00.223
Modified: 2017-12-09T02:29:10.530
Link: CVE-2017-7555
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
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