Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
8.5%
top 7.59%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedApr 24
Latest updateMay 13

Description

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages5 packages

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0, Enterprise Linux 7.4, 7.5

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-qq4w-8g63-5r25: An exploitable stack based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the GNOME libsoup 22022-05-13
CVEList
CVE-2017-2885: An exploitable stack based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the GNOME libsoup 22018-04-24
OSV
CVE-2017-2885: An exploitable stack based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the GNOME libsoup 22018-04-24

📋Vendor Advisories

3
Red Hat
libsoup: Stack based buffer overflow with HTTP Chunked Encoding2017-08-10
Ubuntu
libsoup vulnerability2017-08-10
Debian
CVE-2017-2885: libsoup2.4 - An exploitable stack based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the GNOME lib...2017

💬Community

4
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-2885 mingw-libsoup: libsoup: Stack based buffer overflow with HTTP Chunked Encoding [epel-7]2017-08-10
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-2885 libsoup: Stack based buffer overflow with HTTP Chunked Encoding [fedora-all]2017-08-10
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-2885 mingw-libsoup: libsoup: Stack based buffer overflow with HTTP Chunked Encoding [fedora-all]2017-08-10
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-2885 libsoup: Stack based buffer overflow with HTTP Chunked Encoding2017-08-08
CVE-2017-2885 — Out-of-bounds Write in Gnome Libsoup | cvebase