CVE-2017-7741

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

1.19% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 65.7% 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

2017-04-12 18:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 16:12Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2017-04-12

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-787Out-of-bounds WriteBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

b5feb5377dba77b11927a029ec026b12dd97f7e8ea5f2df657400de001315fc3

• github.comhttps://github.com/erikd/libsndfile/commit/60b234301adf258786d8b90be5c1d437fc8799e0x_refsource_MISC
• blogs.gentoo.orghttps://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/11/libsndfile-invalid-memory-read-and-invalid-memory-write-in/x_refsource_MISC
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201707-04https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-04vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO