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high 7.8

CVE-2017-6308 json

An issue was discovered in tnef before 1.4.13.

published 2017-02-24 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-15369

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 75%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in tnef before 1.4.13. Several Integer Overflows, which can lead to Heap Overflows, have been identified in the functions that wrap memory allocation.

Patch / fix

  • tnef Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.4.12-1.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-6308

  • tnef Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.4.9-1+deb8u2build0.14.04.1
  • tnef Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1.4.9-1+deb8u2build0.16.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-6308

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-6308 updated

tnef: Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 1.4.13

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound

References

Sources

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