| Name | CVE-2017-2808 |
| Description | An exploitable use-after-free vulnerability exists in the account parsing component of the Ledger-CLI 3.1.1. A specially crafted ledger file can cause a use-after-free vulnerability resulting in arbitrary code execution. An attacker can convince a user to load a journal file to trigger this vulnerability. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 876659 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| ledger (PTS) | jessie | 3.1+dfsg1-2 | vulnerable |
| stretch | 3.1.2~pre1+g3a00e1c+dfsg1-2 | vulnerable |
| buster | 3.1.2+dfsg1-1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 3.2.1-7 | fixed |
| bookworm | 3.3.0-3 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 3.3.2-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| ledger | source | (unstable) | 3.1.2+dfsg1-1 | low | | 876659 |
Notes
[stretch] - ledger <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - ledger <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - ledger <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0304
https://github.com/ledger/ledger/issues/1723
https://github.com/ledger/ledger/commit/f3bad93db256db07b6cb831d4d24f47543f57e4a