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CVE-2017-7523

Published: Jul 21, 2017

Modified: Sep 16, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Cygwin versions 1.7.2 up to and including 1.8.0 are vulnerable to buffer overflow vulnerability in wcsxfrm/wcsxfrm_l functions resulting into denial-of-service by crashing the process or potential hijack of the process running with administrative privileges triggered by specially crafted input string.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Red Hat, Inc.	cygwin	affected `since 1.7.2 up to 2.8.0`

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-05/msg00149.html

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