Augeas versions up to and including 1.8.0 are vulnerable to heap-based buffer overflow due to improper handling of escaped strings. Attacker could send crafted strings that would cause the application using augeas to copy past the end of a buffer, leading to a crash or possible code execution.
                
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2017-08-17T19:00:00Z
Updated: 2024-09-17T02:36:08.138Z
Reserved: 2017-04-05T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-7555
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2017-08-17T19:29:00.223
Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860
Link: CVE-2017-7555