CVE-2017-5980

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

1.28% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 68.1% 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:3.0/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-476NULL Pointer DereferenceBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

ade5ba4c6317ac5d1c389f51e47625214c4d53e79ffd55eca5298e26fbb21868

• blogs.gentoo.orghttps://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/02/09/zziplib-null-pointer-dereference-in-zzip_mem_entry_new-memdisk-c/x_refsource_MISC
• 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