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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-7467: minicom security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-7467: minicom security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/11/2018
Created
02/23/2021
Added
02/22/2021
Modified
02/22/2021

Description

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way minicom before version 2.7.1 handled VT100 escape sequences. A malicious terminal device could potentially use this flaw to crash minicom, or execute arbitrary code in the context of the minicom process.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-minicom

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