CVE-2017-2885: GNOME libsoup

An exploitable stack based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the GNOME libsoup 2.58.

CVSS 9.8 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.23 · 97th percentile

Critical, because:

CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.
CVSS score 9.8 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.23 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: talos) at 24 Apr 2018, 19:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
GNOME	libsoup	affected 2.58

Identifiers

CVE-2017-2885

CNA

talos

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
9.8	Critical	3.0	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (talos)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.23, the 97th percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 24 Apr 2018. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2459 vendor-advisoryredhat
www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3929 vendor-advisorydebian
www.securityfocus.com/bid/100258 vdb-entrybid
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Dec/3 mailing-listfulldisc
www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0392
packetstormsecurity.com/files/160388/ProCaster-LE-32F430-GStreamer-souphttpsrc-libsoup-2.51.3-Stack-Overflow.html

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.