CVE-2017-2816 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Libofx

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer9 documents6 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.7%
top 26.83%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Libofx Project LibofxDebian LibofxLibofx+1 more
Timeline
PublishedSep 13
Latest updateMay 13

Description

An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the tag parsing functionality of LibOFX 0.9.11. A specially crafted OFX file can cause a write out of bounds resulting in a buffer overflow on the stack. An attacker can construct a malicious OFX file to trigger this vulnerability.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages4 packages

▶debiandebian/libofx< libofx 1:0.9.11-4 (bookworm)
▶Debianlibofx_project/libofx< 1:0.9.11-4+3
▶CVEListV5libofx/libofx0.9.11

Also affects: Debian Linux 7.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-3w43-mhj6-r4fj: An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the tag parsing functionality of LibOFX 0↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2017-2816: An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the tag parsing functionality of LibOFX 0↗2017-09-13
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2017-2816: libofx - An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the tag parsing functiona...↗2017
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🕵️Threat Intelligence

1
Talos
Vulnerability Spotlight: LibOFX Tag Parsing Code Execution Vulnerability↗2017-09-13
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💬Community

4
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-17795 libtiff: Heap-based buffer overflow in tiff2pdf.c:t2p_write_pdf()↗2018-10-02
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-2816 libofx: Stack-based buffer over-write in sanitize_proprietary_tags function in lib/ofx_preproc.cpp↗2017-09-15
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-14731 CVE-2017-2816 CVE-2017-2920 libofx: various flaws [epel-all]↗2017-09-15
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-14731 CVE-2017-2816 CVE-2017-2920 libofx: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-09-15
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CVE-2017-2816 — Debian Libofx vulnerability | cvebase