CVE-2017-2885

Publication date 10 August 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libsoup2.4	17.04 zesty	Fixed 2.56.0-2ubuntu0.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.52.2-1ubuntu0.2
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.44.2-1ubuntu2.2

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
libsoup2.4	Upstream: ?id=03c

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3383-1
libsoup vulnerability
10 August 2017

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-2885