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FreeBSD: VID-D843A984-7F22-484F-BA81-483DDBE30DC3 (CVE-2017-2807): ledger -- multiple vulnerabilities

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FreeBSD: VID-D843A984-7F22-484F-BA81-483DDBE30DC3 (CVE-2017-2807): ledger -- multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/05/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/26/2017
Modified
05/07/2019

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.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-ledger

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