Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-2870

RCE

Title: Gnome Gdk-Pixbuf RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-2870.

CWE Category CWE-190

Published Date Sep 05, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.8 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.61%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-2870: An exploitable integer overflow vulnerability exists in the tiff_image_parse functionality of Gdk-Pixbuf 2.36.6 when compiled with Clang. A specially crafted tiff file can cause a heap-overflow resulting in remote code execution. An attacker can send a file or a URL to trigger this vulnerability.

Impacted Vendors

gnome 1

Reference Links

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100541 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00025.html https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0377 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100541 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00025.html https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0377

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.8

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

8.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns