CVE-2017-7938

Publication date 20 April 2017

Last updated 11 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.6 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
dmitry 26.04 LTS resolute
Needs evaluation
25.10 questing Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
25.04 plucky Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
24.10 oracular Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
23.10 mantic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.04 LTS jammy
Needs evaluation
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored end of ESM support, was needs-triage

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.6 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

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