CVE-2017-17121

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

1.70% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 75.6% 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

2017-12-04 08:00Z8 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 20:43Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2017-12-04

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-20Improper Input ValidationClass

Data version

5.1

Document digest

ac1d721463ac0a424429b85b6389c2099e906257901af9287af2377ff6b57d3d

• sourceware.orghttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22506x_refsource_MISC
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201811-17https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
• sourceware.orghttps://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=b23dc97fe237a1d9e850d7cbeee066183a00630bx_refsource_MISC