CVE-2017-0357

Publication date 17 January 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

A heap-overflow flaw exists in the -tr loader of iucode-tool starting with v1.4 and before v2.1.1, potentially leading to SIGSEGV, or heap corruption.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
iucode-tool	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 1.6.1-1ubuntu0.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.5.1-1ubuntu0.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

1.4 and higher

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
iucode-tool	Upstream: https://gitlab.com/iucode-tool/iucode-tool/uploads/2dfd5f52b8dc5c42ad7e52123c535051/iucode-tool_fix-cve-2017-0357.patch Upstream: e5e14bf

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3186-1
iucode-tool vulnerability
1 February 2017