CVE-2017-7523

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Red Hat
Status
Cygwin
Vendor
CVE Published:
21 July 2017

Summary

Cygwin versions 1.7.2 up to and including 1.8.0 are vulnerable to buffer overflow vulnerability in wcsxfrm/wcsxfrm_l functions resulting into denial-of-service by crashing the process or potential hijack of the process running with administrative privileges triggered by specially crafted input string.

Affected Version(s)

cygwin since 1.7.2 up to 2.8.0

References

https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-05/msg00149.html
x_refsource_MISC

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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