CVE-2017-6836

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

2.98% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 87.0% 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

2017-03-20 16:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 15:41Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2017-03-12

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-122Heap-based Buffer OverflowVariant

Data version

5.1

Document digest

ef27f6885bc7932489cef1ccb46d3e8de3e160b088065407a95f2cf5db5203ca

• github.comhttps://github.com/mpruett/audiofile/pull/42x_refsource_MISC
• github.comhttps://github.com/mpruett/audiofile/issues/40x_refsource_MISC
• www.debian.orgDSA-3814http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3814vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20170313 Re: audiofile: heap-based buffer overflow in Expand3To4Module::run (SimpleModule.h)http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/13/8mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• blogs.gentoo.orghttps://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/02/20/audiofile-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-expand3to4modulerun-simplemodule-h/x_refsource_MISC