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CVE-2017-7555 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (augeas), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.
Augeas versions up to and including 1.8.0 are vulnerable to heap-based buffer overflow due to improper handling of escaped strings. Attacker could send crafted strings that would cause the application using augeas to copy past the end of a buffer, leading to a crash or possible code execution.