Cygwin versions 1.7.2 up to and including 1.8.0 are vulnerable to buffer overflow vulnerability in wcsxfrm/wcsxfrm_l functions resulting into denial-of-service by crashing the process or potential hijack of the process running with administrative privileges triggered by specially crafted input string.
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https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-05/msg00149.html |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2024-09-16T18:03:20.729Z
Reserved: 2017-04-05T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-7523

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2017-07-21T22:29:00.283
Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860
Link: CVE-2017-7523

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