CVE-2017-2807

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    CVE-2017-2807

    Published: 5 Sept 2017Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the tag parsing functionality of Ledger-CLI 3.1.1. A specially crafted journal file can cause an integer underflow resulting in code execution. An attacker can construct a malicious journal file to trigger this vulnerability.

    References: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00031.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00029.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100543, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-05, https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0303

    Affected packages

    Package

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 11151414aa70f6673b2464e938ae930d8674c915
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    3.1.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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