Out-of-bounds read in Debian Linux - CVE-2017-6800

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Out-of-bounds read in Debian Linux - CVE-2017-6800

Published: March 10, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU39474
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-6800
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Debian
Affected software:
Debian Linux

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

An issue was discovered in ytnef before 1.9.2. An invalid memory access (heap-based buffer over-read) can occur during handling of LONG data types, related to MAPIPrint() in libytnef.


How to mitigate CVE-2017-6800

Install update from vendor's website.

Sources