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UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17840 (CVE-2017-17840)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2017-12-27 17:08 – Updated: 2025-07-16 04:53 – Source website

Withdrawn 2025-07-18

Details

An issue was discovered in Open-iSCSI through 2.0.875. A local attacker can cause the iscsiuio server to abort or potentially execute code by sending messages with incorrect lengths, which (due to lack of checking) can lead to buffer overflows, and result in aborts (with overflow checking enabled) or code execution. The process_iscsid_broadcast function in iscsiuio/src/unix/iscsid_ipc.c does not validate the payload length before a write operation.

Severity

7.8 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-17840	REPORT
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/13/2	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17840	REPORT

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CVE-2017-17840 (GCVE-0-2017-17840)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-12-22 09:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 16:53

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2354 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1072312	x_refsource_MISC
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/13/2	x_refsource_MISC

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