CVEs-PoC/2017/CVE-2017-2807.md

CVE-2017-2807

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.

POC

Reference

• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0303
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0303

Github

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