Upstream information

CVE-2017-2807 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 6.8
Vector AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
  CNA (Talos) National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.5 7.8
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Network Local
Attack Complexity High Low
Privileges Required None None
User Interaction Required Required
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High High
Integrity Impact High High
Availability Impact High High
CVSSv3 Version 3 3
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1052484 [RESOLVED / WONTFIX]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP1
  • ledger >= 3.1.3-bp151.4.3.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2019-1895
SUSE Package Hub 15
  • ledger >= 3.1.3-bp150.3.3.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2019-1783
openSUSE Leap 15.0
  • ledger >= 3.1.3-lp150.2.3.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2019-1779
openSUSE Leap 15.1
  • ledger >= 3.1.3-lp151.3.3.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2019-1779
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • ledger >= 3.2.1-3.3
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-10913

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Sep 5 23:52:24 2017
CVE page last modified: Mon Apr 21 11:26:03 2025