CVE-2017-7467

critical

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.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-13

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7467

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97966

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-07-11

Updated: 2019-10-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

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

Severity: Critical