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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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

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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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