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CVE-2017-6802

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-03-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

An issue was discovered in ytnef before 1.9.2. There is a potential heap-based buffer over-read on incoming Compressed RTF Streams, related to DecompressRTF() in libytnef.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• ytnef: through 1.9.1

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3846
• https://github.com/Yeraze/ytnef/commit/22f8346c8d4f0020a40d9f258fdb3bfc097359cc
• https://github.com/Yeraze/ytnef/issues/34
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LFJWMUEUC4ILH2HEOCYVVLQT654ZMCGQ/
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3846
• https://github.com/Yeraze/ytnef/commit/22f8346c8d4f0020a40d9f258fdb3bfc097359cc
• https://github.com/Yeraze/ytnef/issues/34
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LFJWMUEUC4ILH2HEOCYVVLQT654ZMCGQ/

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