CVE-2017-16938

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

1.86% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 79.0% 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

2017-11-24 07:00Z8 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 20:43Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2017-11-24

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-121Stack-based Buffer OverflowVariant

Data version

5.1

Document digest

4ef42bfe06f8664ef858f322ef8e30d56e88a886b9564eef6684ddf270561617

• lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20171130 [SECURITY] [DLA 1196-1] optipng security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00042.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.debian.orgDSA-4058https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4058vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
• sourceforge.nethttps://sourceforge.net/p/optipng/bugs/69/x_refsource_MISC
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201801-02https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-02vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO