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CVE-2017-7938
- Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 5.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2017-04-20 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-119
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in DMitry (Deepmagic Information Gathering Tool) version 1.3a (Unix) allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long argument. An example threat model is automated execution of DMitry with hostname strings found in local log files.
Affected products
References
- https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2017040113
- https://github.com/jaygreig86/dmitry/pull/12
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/142210/Dmitry-1.3a-Local-Stack-Buffer-Overflow.html
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41898/
- https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2017040113
- https://github.com/jaygreig86/dmitry/pull/12
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/10/msg00024.html
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/142210/Dmitry-1.3a-Local-Stack-Buffer-Overflow.html
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41898/
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