A vulnerability was discovered in augeas affecting the handling of escaped strings. An 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.
Find out more about CVE-2017-7555 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 7.8 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Local |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | Low |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | High |
| Integrity Impact | High |
| Availability Impact | High |
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (augeas) | RHSA-2017:2788 | 2017-09-21 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Gluster Storage 3 | augeas | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | rhev-hypervisor | Affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | rhev-hypervisor6 | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | augeas | Fix deferred |
| OpenStack 6 Installer for RHEL 7 | augeas | Will not fix |
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