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CVE-2017-9058

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-05-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

In libytnef in ytnef through 1.9.2, there is a heap-based buffer over-read due to incorrect boundary checking in the SIZECHECK macro in lib/ytnef.c.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04
• ytnef: through 1.9.2

References

• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=862556
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LFJWMUEUC4ILH2HEOCYVVLQT654ZMCGQ/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3667-1/
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=862556
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LFJWMUEUC4ILH2HEOCYVVLQT654ZMCGQ/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3667-1/

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