Out-of-bounds read in Debian Linux - CVE-2017-6310

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Out-of-bounds read in Debian Linux - CVE-2017-6310

Published: February 24, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU39638
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-6310
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

An issue was discovered in tnef before 1.4.13. Four type confusions have been identified in the file_add_mapi_attrs() function. These might lead to invalid read and write operations, controlled by an attacker.


Affected software

Debian Linux
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
tnef

How to mitigate CVE-2017-6310

Install update from vendor's website.

tnef - addressed in versions 1.4.14-1.el6, 1.4.14-1.el7, 1.4.14-2.fc24, 1.4.14-2.fc25, 1.4.14-2.fc26, 1.4.15-1.el6, 1.4.15-1.el7, 1.4.15-1.fc25, 1.4.15-1.fc26, 1.4.15-1.fc27

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