VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-1817

critical
Published 2017-08-18 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the inet_pton function in network/inet_pton.c in musl libc 0.9.15 through 1.0.4, and 1.1.0 through 1.1.7 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.1.5-2
sid Fixed 1.1.5-2
forky Fixed 1.1.5-2
bullseye Fixed 1.1.5-2
bookworm Fixed 1.1.5-2

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
musl-libcmusl0.9.15
musl-libcmusl1.0.0
musl-libcmusl1.0.1
musl-libcmusl1.0.2
musl-libcmusl1.0.3
musl-libcmusl1.0.4
musl-libcmusl1.1.0
musl-libcmusl1.1.1
musl-libcmusl1.1.2
musl-libcmusl1.1.3
musl-libcmusl1.1.4
musl-libcmusl1.1.5
musl-libcmusl1.1.6
musl-libcmusl1.1.7

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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