An exploitable use-after-free vulnerability exists in the account parsing component of the Ledger-CLI 3.1.1. A specially crafted ledger file can cause a use-after-free vulnerability resulting in arbitrary code execution. An attacker can convince a user to load a journal file to trigger this vulnerability. External References: https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0304
Created ledger tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: epel-all [bug 1483612] Affects: fedora-all [bug 1483613]
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.