Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-9058

Title: Ytnef Project Ytnef Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-9058.

CWE Category CWE-125

Published Date May 18, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.39%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-9058: In libytnef in ytnef through 1.9.2, there is a heap-based buffer over-read due to incorrect boundary checking in the SIZECHECK macro in lib/ytnef.c.

Impacted Vendors

ytnef_project 1

Reference Links

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=862556 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LFJWMUEUC4ILH2HEOCYVVLQT654ZMCGQ/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3667-1/ https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=862556 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LFJWMUEUC4ILH2HEOCYVVLQT654ZMCGQ/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3667-1/

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity CRITICAL

9.8

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:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns