Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Ledger-CLI 3.1.1 Tag Parsing Functionality

CVE-2017-2807 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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