CVE-2017-7467

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-07-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way minicom before version 2.7.1 handled VT100 escape sequences. A malicious terminal device could potentially use this flaw to crash minicom, or execute arbitrary code in the context of the minicom process.

Affected products

[UNKNOWN] minicom: before 2.7.1 — fixed in 2.7.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: [UNKNOWN] minicom 2.7.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/18/5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97966
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7467
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-13
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/18/5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97966
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7467
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-13

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