CVE-2017-7523

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jul 21, 2017
Updated
Sep 16, 2024
Reserved
Apr 5, 2017

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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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
cygwinRed Hat, Inc.
  • since 1.7.2 up to 2.8.0Affected

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