CVE-2017-6802

HIGH

ytnef <1.9.2 - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3846
Issue Tracking, Patch x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/Yeraze/ytnef/issues/34

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0080
EPSS Percentile 74.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
ytnef_project/ytnef < 1.9.1
Published Mar 10, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026