CVE-2017-9732

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9732
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-9732.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-9732
Published
2018-12-20T23:29:00.237Z
Modified
2025-11-20T10:21:06.845769Z
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

The read_packet function in knc (Kerberised NetCat) before 1.11-1 is vulnerable to denial of service (memory exhaustion) that can be exploited remotely without authentication, possibly affecting another services running on the targeted host.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/elric1/knc

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/elric1/knc
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
f237f3e09ecbaf59c897f5046538a7b1a3fa40c1

Affected versions

1.*

1.6
1.6.1
1.7
1.7.1

Other

elric_sig_20111112000136
elric_sig_20111127173314
elric_sig_20111129153352
elric_sig_20120220115218
elric_sig_20120705171524
elric_sig_20120927180657
elric_sig_20130214153639
elric_sig_20130829155900

Database specific

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