Ubuntu: USN-3400-1 (CVE-2017-7555): Augeas vulnerability
8
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
08/17/2017
07/25/2018
08/21/2017
04/25/2018
Description
Augeas versions up to and including 1.8.0 are vulnerable to heap-based buffer overflow due to improper handling of escaped strings. Attacker could send crafted strings that would cause the application using augeas to copy past the end of a buffer, leading to a crash or possible code execution.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-augeas-tools
- ubuntu-upgrade-libaugeas0
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