CVE-2017-16996

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

0.39% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 33.6% 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:3.1/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

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

2017-12-22 10:00Z8 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 20:43Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2017-11-27

Assigning CNA

debian

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-787Out-of-bounds WriteBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

e5ae0693b39a06f62a51951d6b0feef2873dc5efe4e4fafa0e76a130f7885e66

• bugs.chromium.orghttps://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1454x_refsource_MISC
• git.kernel.orghttp://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0c17d1d2c61936401f4702e1846e2c19b200f958x_refsource_MISC
• github.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0c17d1d2c61936401f4702e1846e2c19b200f958x_refsource_MISC
• www.securityfocus.com102267http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102267vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• openwall.comhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/21/2x_refsource_MISC