CVE-2016-7973

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

3.20% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 87.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

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

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2017-01-28 01:33Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 02:13Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-09-09

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
• CWE-125Out-of-bounds ReadBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

131d4b1cad4b932494f5ff62c7264f973cf358ea889b0f1abf357a3dcdbd9632

• www.securitytracker.com1037755http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037755vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
• www.debian.orgDSA-3775http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3775vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
• access.redhat.comRHSA-2017:1871https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1871vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
• www.mail-archive.comhttps://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist%40lists.debian.org/msg1494526.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.securityfocus.com95852http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95852vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201702-30https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-30vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO