Security Advisory

CVE-2017-7555

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-08-17 19:00:00
Last updated 2024-09-17 02:36:08
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.