CVE-2017-6802

An issue was discovered in ytnef before 1.9.2. There is a potential heap-based buffer over-read on incoming Compressed RTF Streams, related to DecompressRTF() in libytnef.

• CWE-125

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3846Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/Yeraze/ytnef/commit/22f8346c8d4f0020a40d9f258fdb3bfc097359ccPatch
• https://github.com/Yeraze/ytnef/issues/34Issue Tracking, Patch
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LFJWMUEUC4ILH2HEOCYVVLQT654ZMCGQ/
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3846Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/Yeraze/ytnef/commit/22f8346c8d4f0020a40d9f258fdb3bfc097359ccPatch
• https://github.com/Yeraze/ytnef/issues/34Issue Tracking, Patch
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LFJWMUEUC4ILH2HEOCYVVLQT654ZMCGQ/

Published

Mar 10, 2017

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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