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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-2885: Vulnerability in LibSoup

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-2885: Vulnerability in LibSoup

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/22/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/22/2018
Modified
02/01/2022

Description

An exploitable stack based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the GNOME libsoup 2.58. A specially crafted HTTP request can cause a stack overflow resulting in remote code execution. An attacker can send a special HTTP request to the vulnerable server to trigger this vulnerability.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-communication-im-pidgin-2-10-11-0-175-3-29-0-1-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-editor-gobby-0-4-12-0-175-3-29-0-1-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-c-net6-1-3-14-0-175-3-29-0-1-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-c-obby-0-4-7-0-175-3-29-0-1-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-desktop-evolution-data-server-2-30-3-0-175-3-29-0-1-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-desktop-gtk-vnc-0-7-0-0-175-3-29-0-2-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-libsoup-2-57-1-0-175-3-29-0-1-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-python-python-gtk-vnc-27-0-3-10-0-175-3-29-0-1-0

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