UBUNTU-CVE-2017-2808

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-2808

    Published: 5 Sept 2017Last Modified: 24 Oct 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-2808

    Summary:

    Details: An exploitable use-after-free vulnerability exists in the account parsing component of the Ledger-CLI 3.1.1. A specially crafted ledger file can cause a use-after-free vulnerability resulting in arbitrary code execution. An attacker can convince a user to load a journal file to trigger this vulnerability.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-2808, https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0304, https://github.com/ledger/ledger/commit/f3bad93db256db07b6cb831d4d24f47543f57e4a, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-2808

    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
    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