CVE-2017-7467

minicom: Out of bounds write in vt100.c

Published 11 Jul 2018Modified 17 Jun 2026CWE 787, 119

In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Red Hat7.0CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium), Ubuntu (medium).

Description

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

Source	Package	Fixed in
debian 11	minicom	2.7-1.1
debian 12	minicom	2.7-1.1
debian 13	minicom	2.7-1.1
debian 14	minicom	2.7-1.1
debian 7	minicom	2.6.1-1+deb7u1
debian 8	minicom	2.7-1+deb8u1
echo	minicom	2.7-1.1
Red Hat	minicom	no fix listed
ubuntu 14.04	minicom	2.7-1+deb8u1build0.14.04.1
ubuntu 14.04-ESM	minicom	2.7-1+deb8u1build0.14.04.1
ubuntu 16.04	minicom	2.7-1+deb8u1build0.16.04.1
ubuntu 16.04-ESM	minicom	2.7-1+deb8u1build0.16.04.1

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