CVEs-PoC/2017/CVE-2017-2808.md

CVE-2017-2808

Description

An exploitable use-after-free vulnerability exists in the account parsing component of the Ledger-CLI 3.1.1. A specially crafted ledger file can cause a use-after-free vulnerability resulting in arbitrary code execution. An attacker can convince a user to load a journal file to trigger this vulnerability.

POC

Reference

• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0304
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0304

Github

• https://github.com/andir/nixos-issue-db-example