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CVE-2017-6299

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-02-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-835

Description

An issue was discovered in ytnef before 1.9.1. This is related to a patch described as "2 of 9. Infinite Loop / DoS in the TNEFFillMapi function in lib/ytnef.c."

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• ytnef: through 1.9

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3846
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/15/4
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96423
• https://github.com/Yeraze/ytnef/pull/27
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LFJWMUEUC4ILH2HEOCYVVLQT654ZMCGQ/
• https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2017-002-ytnef/
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3846
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/15/4
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96423
• https://github.com/Yeraze/ytnef/pull/27
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LFJWMUEUC4ILH2HEOCYVVLQT654ZMCGQ/
• https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2017-002-ytnef/

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