Advisories » MGASA-2017-0128

Updated minicom packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 03 May 2017
Modification date: 03 May 2017
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2017-7467

Description

In minicom before version 2.7.1, the escparms[] buffer in vt100.c is
vulnerable to an overflow that may allow for remote code execution
(CVE-2017-7467).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20701
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/18/5
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7467

SRPMS

5/core

• minicom-2.7.1-1.mga5