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CVE-2017-12144

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-08-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-770

Description

In ytnef 1.9.2, an allocation failure was found in the function TNEFFillMapi in ytnef.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Affected products

• ytnef: 1.9.2

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100098
• https://github.com/Yeraze/ytnef/issues/51
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LFJWMUEUC4ILH2HEOCYVVLQT654ZMCGQ/
• https://somevulnsofadlab.blogspot.com/2017/07/ytnefallocation-failed-in-tneffillmapi.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100098
• https://github.com/Yeraze/ytnef/issues/51
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LFJWMUEUC4ILH2HEOCYVVLQT654ZMCGQ/
• https://somevulnsofadlab.blogspot.com/2017/07/ytnefallocation-failed-in-tneffillmapi.html

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