CVE-2017-6802

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6802
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-6802.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-6802
Downstream
Published
2017-03-10T10:59:00.577Z
Modified
2026-07-08T11:47:40.070348Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in ytnef before 1.9.2. There is a potential heap-based buffer over-read on incoming Compressed RTF Streams, related to DecompressRTF() in libytnef.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "8.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "9.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/yeraze/ytnef

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/yeraze/ytnef
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
b36d6b25b7a546fc28d6c3812124e487987a4910
Fixed
22f8346c8d4f0020a40d9f258fdb3bfc097359cc
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:ytnef_project:ytnef:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": [
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "REFERENCES"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.9.1"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v1.*
v1.7
v1.8
v1.9
v1.9.1
v1.9.1-2

Database specific

vanir_signatures_modified 
"2026-07-08T11:47:40Z"
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-6802.json"
vanir_signatures 
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            "threshold": 0.9
        },
        "id": "CVE-2017-6802-3e1461a9",
        "source": "https://github.com/yeraze/ytnef/commit/22f8346c8d4f0020a40d9f258fdb3bfc097359cc",
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        "source": "https://github.com/yeraze/ytnef/commit/22f8346c8d4f0020a40d9f258fdb3bfc097359cc",
        "target": {
            "function": "DecompressRTF",
            "file": "lib/ytnef.c"
        }
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]