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CVE-2017-7467

minicom: Out of bounds write in vt100.c

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7

CVSS 3.0

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Published · April 18, 2017

Updated · June 30, 2026

Description

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way minicom 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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 7
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write