Description
Augeas versions up to and including 1.8.0 are vulnerable to heap-based buffer overflow due to improper handling of escaped strings. Attacker could send crafted strings that would cause the application using augeas to copy past the end of a buffer, leading to a crash or possible code execution.
Published: 2017-08-17
Score: 9.8 Critical
EPSS: 1.2% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1067-1 augeas security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3949-1 augeas security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-16563 Augeas versions up to and including 1.8.0 are vulnerable to heap-based buffer overflow due to improper handling of escaped strings. Attacker could send crafted strings that would cause the application using augeas to copy past the end of a buffer, leading to a crash or possible code execution.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3400-1 Augeas vulnerability
History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.01667}

epss

{'score': 0.01677}


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Augeas Augeas
Redhat Enterprise Linux Rhel Aus Rhel E4s Rhel Tus
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-17T02:36:08.138Z

Reserved: 2017-04-05T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-7555

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-08-17T19:29:00.223

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-7555

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2017-08-17T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-7555 - Bugzilla

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