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    CVE-2017-7869

    GnuTLS before 2017-02-20 has an out-of-bounds write caused by an integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow related to the cdk_pkt_read function in opencdk/read-packet.c. This issue (which is a subset of the vendor's GNUTLS-SA-2017-3 report) is fixed in 3.5.10.

    Published:Apr 14, 2017
    Last Modified:Apr 20, 2025
    EPS:Apr 14, 2017
    EPSS Score:0.00703
    CVSS Score:7.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Gnu
    Product
    Gnutls
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

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