CVE-2017-17840

HIGH

open-iscsi < 2.0.875 - Buffer Overflow via Unvalidated Payload Length in iscsid_ipc

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in Open-iSCSI through 2.0.875. A local attacker can cause the iscsiuio server to abort or potentially execute code by sending messages with incorrect lengths, which (due to lack of checking) can lead to buffer overflows, and result in aborts (with overflow checking enabled) or code execution. The process_iscsid_broadcast function in iscsiuio/src/unix/iscsid_ipc.c does not validate the payload length before a write operation.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1072312
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/13/2

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0044
EPSS Percentile 35.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (1)
open-iscsi_project/open-iscsi < 2.0.875
Published Dec 27, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026