Description

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

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3949

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100378

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2788

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2403

https://github.com/hercules-team/augeas/pull/480

https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2017-7555

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3