CVE-2017-7467
CVSS v3
9.8
CRITICAL
EPSS Score
2.7 %
exploit probability, as of 2026-10-19
CISA KEV
No
known exploited
Exploitation
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Vendor advisories
minicom: Out of bounds write in vt100.c
minicom.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 · minicom.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 · minicom.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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.
Technical details
- Published
- 2018-07-11
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