CVE-2017-2807 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8