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CVE-2017-7869

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-04-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

GnuTLS before 2017-02-20 has an out-of-bounds write caused by an integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow related to the cdk_pkt_read function in opencdk/read-packet.c. This issue (which is a subset of the vendor's GNUTLS-SA-2017-3 report) is fixed in 3.5.10.

Affected products

• [UNKNOWN] gnutls: through 3.5.9

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97040
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2292
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=420
• https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/commit/51464af713d71802e3c6d5ac15f1a95132a354fe
• https://www.gnutls.org/security.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97040
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2292
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=420
• https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/commit/51464af713d71802e3c6d5ac15f1a95132a354fe
• https://www.gnutls.org/security.html

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