[Secure-testing-team] Bug#876659: ledger: CVE-2017-2808: Ledger CLI Account Directive Use-After-Free Vulnerability

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: ledger
Version: 3.1.2~pre1+g3a00e1c+dfsg1-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for ledger.

CVE-2017-2808[0]:
| 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.

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-2017-2808
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-2808
[1] https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0304

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore