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CVE-2017-7555 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (augeas), 4 status rows across 4 suites (trusty, upstream, xenial, zesty): released 3, needs-triage 1.
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.