Vulnerabilities / CVE-2017-7555

critical

CVE-2017-7555

augeas: Improper handling of escaped strings leading to memory corruption

Published Modified CWE 122, 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 Hat7.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.3augeas1.4.0-r5
alpine 3.4augeas1.5.0-r1
alpine 3.5augeas1.6.0-r1
alpine 3.6augeas1.8.1-r0
chainguardpy3-augeas0
debian 11augeas1.8.1-1
debian 12augeas1.8.1-1
debian 13augeas1.8.1-1
debian 14augeas1.8.1-1
debian 7augeas0.10.0-1+deb7u1
debian 8augeas1.2.0-0.2+deb8u2
debian 9augeas1.8.0-1+deb9u1
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SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.3augeas1.4.0-r5
alpine 3.4augeas1.5.0-r1
alpine 3.5augeas1.6.0-r1
alpine 3.6augeas1.8.1-r0
chainguardpy3-augeas0
debian 11augeas1.8.1-1
debian 12augeas1.8.1-1
debian 13augeas1.8.1-1
debian 14augeas1.8.1-1
debian 7augeas0.10.0-1+deb7u1
debian 8augeas1.2.0-0.2+deb8u2
debian 9augeas1.8.0-1+deb9u1
echoaugeas1.8.1-1
Oracle Linux 7augeas1.4.0-2.el7_4.1
Oracle Linux 7augeas-devel1.4.0-2.el7_4.1
Oracle Linux 7augeas-libs1.4.0-2.el7_4.1
Red Hataugeasno fix listed
Red Hataugeas-develno fix listed
Red Hataugeas-libsno fix listed
Red Hatrhev-hypervisorno fix listed
ubuntu 14.04augeas1.2.0-0ubuntu1.3
ubuntu 14.04-ESMaugeas1.2.0-0ubuntu1.3
ubuntu 16.04augeas1.4.0-0ubuntu1.1
ubuntu 16.04-ESMaugeas1.4.0-0ubuntu1.1
ubuntu 17.04augeas1.6.0-0ubuntu3.1

References

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