CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-6299
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-02-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-835
Description
An issue was discovered in ytnef before 1.9.1. This is related to a patch described as "2 of 9. Infinite Loop / DoS in the TNEFFillMapi function in lib/ytnef.c."
Affected configurations
• ytnef project ytnef (<= 1.9)
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3846 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/15/4 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96423 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/Yeraze/ytnef/pull/27 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LFJWMUEUC4ILH2HEOCYVVLQT654ZMCGQ/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2017-002-ytnef/ Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3846 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/15/4 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96423 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/Yeraze/ytnef/pull/27 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LFJWMUEUC4ILH2HEOCYVVLQT654ZMCGQ/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2017-002-ytnef/ Patch, Third Party Advisory