CVE-2017-16526

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

0.33% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 26.7% 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:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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

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

2017-11-04 01:00Z8 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 20:27Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2017-11-03

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-253Incorrect Check of Function Return ValueBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

ff3370bf7be33a1445deb53c60254f39fc52599de121e01c81f00a99e7a67e5b

• www.debian.orgDSA-4187https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4187vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
• usn.ubuntu.comUSN-3754-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/3754-1/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• groups.google.comhttps://groups.google.com/d/msg/syzkaller/zROBxKXzHDk/5I6aZ3O2AgAJx_refsource_MISC
• github.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/bbf26183b7a6236ba602f4d6a2f7cade35bba043x_refsource_MISC
• lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20180502 [SECURITY] [DLA 1369-1] linux security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00000.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST