[Secure-testing-team] Bug#872400: augeas: CVE-2017-7555: Improper handling of escaped strings leading to memory corruption

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: augeas
Version: 1.8.0-1
Severity: grave
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/hercules-team/augeas/pull/480

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for augeas.

CVE-2017-7555[0]:
crash/memory corruption when handling certain escaped strings

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7555
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7555
[1] https://github.com/hercules-team/augeas/pull/480
[2] https://github.com/hercules-team/augeas/pull/480/commits/39592c4eef8d4826947adca94c7fbd6efb8d47ca
[3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1475621 (not
    addessible at time of writing)
[4] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/17/3

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore