UBUNTU-CVE-2017-2807

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-2807

    Published: 5 Sept 2017Last Modified: 24 Oct 2025
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    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.

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: ledger

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+dfsg1-1?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    3.1+dfsg1-5

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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