CVE-2017-7467

9.8 criticalEPSS 2.7%

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

9.8 critical

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

EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 85% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs: CWE-119, CWE-787
Published: 2018-07-11
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

minicom_project:minicom

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/18/5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97966
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7467
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-13
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/18/5

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