Account directive use-after-free vulnerability with deferred postings (TALOS-2017-0304, CVE-2017-2808) #1723
Description
Cory Duplantis and another member of Cisco Talos discovered and described an issue with ledger:
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.
CVE-2017-2808 was assigned.