CVE-2017-17833

Publication date 23 April 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

OpenSLP releases in the 1.0.2 and 1.1.0 code streams have a heap-related memory corruption issue which may manifest itself as a denial-of-service or a remote code-execution vulnerability.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
openslp-dfsg 18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
17.10 artful
Fixed 1.2.1-11ubuntu0.17.10.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1.2.1-11ubuntu0.16.04.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1.2.1-9ubuntu0.3

Notes

seth-arnold

Fix may not be complete

mdeslaur

patch need to also be added a few lines below

Patch details

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

Package Patch details
openslp-dfsg

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)

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