CVE-2017-7869

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 8
Modified
Published: 14 Apr 2017, 04:30
Last modified:05 Aug 2024, 16:19

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
v3.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.7% LOW
1% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

14 Apr 2017, 04:30
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
05 Aug 2024, 16:19
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.70%• Percentile: 72%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-787•Out-of-bounds Write

    The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

Affected Systems

  • gnu•gnutls

    ≤ 3.5.9

References (5)