CVE-2017-7467

HIGH

minicom < 2.7.1 - Buffer Overflow via VT100 Escape Sequence Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/18/5
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97966
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-13

Scores

CVSS v3 7.0
EPSS 0.0276
EPSS Percentile 84.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-119 CWE-787
Status published
Products (1)
minicom_project/minicom < 2.7.1
Published Jul 11, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026