CVE-2017-7869
high
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.5
Description
GnuTLS before 2017-02-20 has an out-of-bounds write caused by an integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow related to the cdk_pkt_read function in opencdk/read-packet.c. This issue (which is a subset of the vendor's GNUTLS-SA-2017-3 report) is fixed in 3.5.10.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 3.5.8-4 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 3.5.8-4 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 3.5.8-4 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 3.5.8-4 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 3.5.8-4 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| gnu | gnutls | {"endIncluding":"3.5.9"} | |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97040
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2292
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=420
- https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/commit/51464af713d71802e3c6d5ac15f1a95132a354fe
- https://www.gnutls.org/security.html
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7869.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7869
CWEs
CWE-787
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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