CVE-2017-2885
Published: 10 August 2017
An exploitable stack based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the GNOME libsoup 2.58. A specially crafted HTTP request can cause a stack overflow resulting in remote code execution. An attacker can send a special HTTP request to the vulnerable server to trigger this vulnerability.
Priority
CVSS 3 base score: 9.8
Status
Package | Release | Status |
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libsoup2.4 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
upstream |
Needs triage
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precise |
Does not exist
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trusty |
Does not exist
(trusty was released [2.44.2-1ubuntu2.2])
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|
xenial |
Released
(2.52.2-1ubuntu0.2)
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|
zesty |
Released
(2.56.0-2ubuntu0.1)
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Patches: upstream: https://git.gnome.org/browse/libsoup/commit/?id=03c91c76daf70ee227f38304c5e45a155f45073d |