CVE-2017-15996

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

2.37% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 83.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

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

NVD CVSS vector

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

NVD analysis status

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

Red Hat severity

Low. 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

2017-10-29 17:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 20:13Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2017-10-29

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

Data version

5.1

Document digest

ec509a5f2edc8a71e18c131b3095cf4eb1c3a3ab2bbc73ae9c6eb01c90e58844

• www.securityfocus.com101608http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101608vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• sourceware.orghttps://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=d91f0b20e561e326ee91a09a76206257bde8438bx_refsource_CONFIRM
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201801-01https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-01vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
• sourceware.orghttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22361x_refsource_CONFIRM