CVE-2017-7467

State: Published
Severity: 7.0 High
Published: Jul 11, 2018
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Apr 5, 2017

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	7.0 High	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	redhat

Weaknesses

CWE-787

Affected Products

Product	Versions
minicom[UNKNOWN]	minicom 2.7.1Affected

References

[oss-security] 20170418 CVE-2017-7467: minicom and prl-vzvncserver vt100.c escparms[] buffer overflowmailing-list
97966vdb-entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7467
GLSA-201706-13vendor-advisory

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