VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2017-6802
An issue was discovered in ytnef before 1.9.2.
HIGH 7.5EPSS 1.42%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.42%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
An issue was discovered in ytnef before 1.9.2. There is a potential heap-based buffer over-read on incoming Compressed RTF Streams, related to DecompressRTF() in libytnef.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.42% probability · 71th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-125
- Affected
- ytnef project/ytnef · debian/debian linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3846Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Yeraze/ytnef/commit/22f8346c8d4f0020a40d9f258fdb3bfc097359ccPatch
- https://github.com/Yeraze/ytnef/issues/34Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LFJWMUEUC4ILH2HEOCYVVLQT654ZMCGQ/
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3846Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Yeraze/ytnef/commit/22f8346c8d4f0020a40d9f258fdb3bfc097359ccPatch
- https://github.com/Yeraze/ytnef/issues/34Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LFJWMUEUC4ILH2HEOCYVVLQT654ZMCGQ/
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.