CVE-2017-16844

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

12.19% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 96.1% 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

Important. 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

2017-11-16 15:00Z8 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 20:35Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2017-11-16

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-122Heap-based Buffer OverflowVariant

Data version

5.1

Document digest

67adc2c27c8b8d2f9d45a17aa41b9a7f3b475a8926127e166b127a52e9cb57a3

• lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20171118 [SECURITY] [DLA 1173-1] procmail security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00019.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• access.redhat.comRHSA-2017:3269https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3269vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
• bugs.debian.orghttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=876511x_refsource_MISC
• www.debian.orgDSA-4041https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4041vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
• www.securitytracker.com1039844http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039844vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK