glsa-201706-13.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201706-13">
  <title>minicom: Remote execution of arbitrary code</title>
  <synopsis>An out-of-bounds data access in minicom might allow remote
    attackers to execute arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">minicom</product>
  <announced>2017-06-06</announced>
  <revised count="1">2017-06-06</revised>
  <bug>615996</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-dialup/minicom" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.7.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.7.1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Minicom is a text-based serial port communications program.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>In minicom before version 2.7.1, the escparms[] buffer in vt100.c is
      vulnerable to an overflow.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker, able to connect to a minicom port, could possibly
      execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, or cause a
      Denial of Service condition.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All minicom users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-dialup/minicom-2.7.1"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-7467">CVE-2017-7467</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-04-30T12:15:55Z">BlueKnight</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-06-06T20:02:58Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>