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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-2808: ledger: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-2808: ledger: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/05/2017
Created
04/03/2020
Added
04/02/2020
Modified
04/02/2020

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-office-ledger

References

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