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high 7.0

CVE-2017-7467 json

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way minicom before version 2.7.1 handled VT100 escape sequences.

published 2018-07-11 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-16490

cvss
7.0
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.7%
EPSS 2.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 86%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way minicom before version 2.7.1 handled VT100 escape sequences. A malicious terminal device could potentially use this flaw to crash minicom, or execute arbitrary code in the context of the minicom process.

Patch / fix

  • minicom_project minicom 2.7.1
  • minicom Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.7-1.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7467

  • minicom Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 2.7-1+deb8u1build0.14.04.1
  • minicom Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 2.7-1+deb8u1build0.16.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7467

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • minicom SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4 2.3-27.24.6.2
  • minicom SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +4 more 2.7-3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:1136-1SUSE-SU-2017:1092-1

  • minicom openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.7.1-2.9

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11049-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-7467 updated cvss 7.0

minicom: Out of bounds write in vt100.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 minicom Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 minicom Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 minicom
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • openwall.com http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/18/5 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 7.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • [UNKNOWN] minicom

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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