description: 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.
problem types: CWE-787
affected:
{
product: cygwin
vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
versions:
status: affected, version: since 1.7.2 up to 2.8.0
}