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Unscored CVE-2017-17840 EUVD-2017-8987GHSA-2mfv-hhmv-9rh8

An issue was discovered in Open-iSCSI through 2.0.875. A local attacker can cause the iscsiuio server to abort or potentially execute code …

Published Dec 22, 2017 · Updated Sep 16, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

An issue was discovered in Open-iSCSI through 2.0.875. A local attacker can cause the iscsiuio server to abort or potentially execute code by sending messages with incorrect lengths, which (due to lack of checking) can lead to buffer overflows, and result in aborts (with overflow checking enabled) or code execution. The process_iscsid_broadcast function in iscsiuio/src/unix/iscsid_ipc.c does not validate the payload length before a write operation.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 open-iscsi 2.0.874-5 —
Debian 13 open-iscsi 2.0.874-5 —
Debian 12 open-iscsi 2.0.874-5 —

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