CVE-2017-9115 (GCVE-0-2017-9115)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-05-21 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 16:55
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
In OpenEXR 2.2.0, an invalid write of size 2 in the = operator function in half.h could cause the application to crash or execute arbitrary code.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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| https://github.com/openexr/openexr/issues/232 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/openexr/openexr/pull/233 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
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| https://usn.ubuntu.com/4339-1/ | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
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2017-05-21 00:00
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"aggregate_severity": "moderate",
"current_release_date": "2026-08-31T09:06:18Z",
"cve": "CVE-2017-9115",
"id": "CVE-2017-9115",
"initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T04:45:25Z",
"product_status:known_affected": "5",
"product_status:recommended": "284",
"source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
"status": "interim",
"title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2017-9115",
"url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2017-9115.json",
"version": "20"
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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