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CVE-2017-2807

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-09-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

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 products

• Ledger CLI: 3.1.1

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
• 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

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