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CVE-2017-7555

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Last updated

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7555

Severity

9.8

Critical

CVSS CVSS_V3

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.

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Affected packages


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