Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-6802

Title: Ytnef Project Ytnef Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-6802.

CWE Category CWE-125

Published Date Mar 10, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.80%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-6802: 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.

Impacted Vendors

ytnef_project 1

Reference Links

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3846 https://github.com/Yeraze/ytnef/commit/22f8346c8d4f0020a40d9f258fdb3bfc097359cc https://github.com/Yeraze/ytnef/issues/34 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LFJWMUEUC4ILH2HEOCYVVLQT654ZMCGQ/ http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3846 https://github.com/Yeraze/ytnef/commit/22f8346c8d4f0020a40d9f258fdb3bfc097359cc https://github.com/Yeraze/ytnef/issues/34 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LFJWMUEUC4ILH2HEOCYVVLQT654ZMCGQ/

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns