A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way minicom before version 2.7.1 handled VT100 escape sequences. A malicious terminal device could potentially use this flaw to crash minicom, or execute arbitrary code in the context of the minicom process.
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-13
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7467