CVE-2017-17833 — OpenSLP releases in the 1

OpenSLP releases in the 1.0.2 and 1.1.0 code streams have a heap-related memory corruption issue which may manifest itself as a denial-of-service or a remote code-execution vulnerability.

01What is this vulnerability?

OpenSLP releases in the 1.0.2 and 1.1.0 code streams have a heap-related memory corruption issue which may manifest itself as a denial-of-service or a remote code-execution vulnerability.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-04-23T18:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T21:06:48.960Z

09References

• usn.ubuntu.com — https://usn.ubuntu.com/3708-1/
• sourceforge.net — https://sourceforge.net/p/openslp/mercurial/ci/151f07745901cbdba6e00e4889561b408…
• lists.debian.org — https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00029.html
• support.lenovo.com — http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/LEN-18247
• access.redhat.com — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2308
• access.redhat.com — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2240
• security.gentoo.org — https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-12