Bug 1488868 (CVE-2017-2807) - CVE-2017-2807 ledger: CLI Tags Parsing Code Execution Vulnerability
Summary: CVE-2017-2807 ledger: CLI Tags Parsing Code Execution Vulnerability
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2017-2807
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1483612 1483613
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-09-06 11:29 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 01:36 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:24:21 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-09-06 11:29:44 UTC 
An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the tag parsing functionality of Ledger-CLI 3.1.1. A specially crafted journal file can cause a integer underflow resulting in code execution. An attacker can construct a malicious journal file to trigger this vulnerability.

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https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0303
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-09-06 11:30:16 UTC 
Created ledger tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1483612]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1483613]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 03:24:21 UTC 
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.
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