CVE-2017-7938 — Vulnetix

CVE-2017-7938 PUBLISHED

Stack-based buffer overflow in DMitry (Deepmagic Information Gathering Tool) version 1.3a (Unix) allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long argument. An example threat model is automated execution of DMitry with hostname strings found in local log files.

EPSS 1.89% · 83.6th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

1.89%

83.6th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:22.04:LTS	dmitry	1.3a-1.2, 1.3a-1.1, 0
Ubuntu:24.04:LTS	dmitry	0, 1.3a-2, 1.3a-3
Ubuntu:20.04:LTS	dmitry	0, 1.3a-1build1
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS	dmitry	1.3a-1build1, 0, 1.3a-1
Ubuntu:25.10	dmitry	0, 1.3a-6
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS	dmitry	1.3a-1, 0

Exploit Intelligence

https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2017040113 (nist-nvd)
https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/142210/Dmitry-1.3a-Local-Stack-Buffer-Overflow.html (nist-nvd)
CIRCL exploited: CVE-2017-7938 (circl-sighting)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/10/msg00024.html (circl)
https://github.com/jaygreig86/dmitry/pull/12 (circl)
41898 (cve.org)
DMitry - ( Deepmagic Information Gathering Tool ) - Local Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (0day-today)
DMitry - ( Deepmagic Information Gathering Tool ) - Local Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (0day-today)

Timeline

Apr 19, 2017 PoC Published
Apr 19, 2017 PoC Published
Apr 20, 2017 CVE Published
Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
Oct 26, 2021 EPSS Score
Dec 27, 2021 EPSS Score
Feb 28, 2022 EPSS Score
May 1, 2022 EPSS Score
Jul 3, 2022 EPSS Score
Nov 6, 2022 EPSS Score
Jan 8, 2023 EPSS Score

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7938 third-party-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7938 third-party-advisory
https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/142210/Dmitry-1.3a-Local-Stack-Buffer-Overflow.html third-party-advisory
https://github.com/jaygreig86/dmitry/pull/12 third-party-advisory

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