UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7869

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7869

    Published: 14 Apr 2017Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-7869
    Aliases:
    USN-3318-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7869, https://gnutls.org/security.html#GNUTLS-SA-2017-3, https://www.gnutls.org/security.html, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3318-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7869

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: gnutls26

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.12.23-12ubuntu2.8

    Affected versions

    2.12.23-1ubuntu4
    2.12.23-1ubuntu5
    2.12.23-12ubuntu1
    2.12.23-12ubuntu2
    2.12.23-12ubuntu2.1
    2.12.23-12ubuntu2.2
    2.12.23-12ubuntu2.3
    2.12.23-12ubuntu2.4
    2.12.23-12ubuntu2.5
    2.12.23-12ubuntu2.6
    2.12.23-12ubuntu2.7

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High