CVE-2017-5975

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

2.07% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 81.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

5.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/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

2017-03-01 15:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 15:18Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2017-02-13

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-787Out-of-bounds WriteBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

9446719fb8587c16492b295aae79b1e07a6f55038ba1b622a63778151273e1fe

• blogs.gentoo.orghttps://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/02/09/zziplib-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-__zzip_get64-fetch-c/x_refsource_MISC
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20170214 Re: A note about the multiple crashes in zziplibhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/14/3mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.securityfocus.com96268http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96268vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• www.debian.orgDSA-3878http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3878vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN