CVE-2017-2807

Publication date 5 September 2017

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
ledger 26.04 LTS resolute
Fixed 3.1.2+dfsg1-1
25.10 questing
Fixed 3.1.2+dfsg1-1
25.04 plucky
Fixed 3.1.2+dfsg1-1
24.10 oracular
Fixed 3.1.2+dfsg1-1
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 3.1.2+dfsg1-1
23.10 mantic
Fixed 3.1.2+dfsg1-1
23.04 lunar
Fixed 3.1.2+dfsg1-1
22.10 kinetic
Fixed 3.1.2+dfsg1-1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 3.1.2+dfsg1-1
21.10 impish
Fixed 3.1.2+dfsg1-1
21.04 hirsute
Fixed 3.1.2+dfsg1-1
20.10 groovy
Fixed 3.1.2+dfsg1-1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 3.1.2+dfsg1-1
19.10 eoan
Fixed 3.1.2+dfsg1-1
19.04 disco
Fixed 3.1.2+dfsg1-1
18.10 cosmic Ignored end of life
18.04 LTS bionic
Vulnerable
17.10 artful Ignored end of life
17.04 zesty Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored end of standard support, was needed
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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