| Name | CVE-2017-7938 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-3933-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 1070370 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| dmitry (PTS) | bullseye | 1.3a-1.1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 1.3a-1.1+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1.3a-1.2+deb12u1 | fixed |
| forky, sid, trixie | 1.3a-6 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[buster] - dmitry <postponed> (Minor issue, crash in CLI tool, requires malicious parameter)
https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/142210/Dmitry-1.3a-Local-Stack-Buffer-Overflow.html
https://github.com/jaygreig86/dmitry/pull/12