Vulnerabilities / CVE-2017-17833

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CVE-2017-17833

openslp: Heap memory corruption in slpd/slpd_process.c allows denial of service or potentially code execution

Published Modified CWE 119
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (high), Amazon (high), Oracle (high), Ubuntu (medium).

Description

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
amazon linux 2openslp, openslp-debuginfo, openslp-devel and 1 more1:2.0.0-7.amzn2
debian 7openslp-dfsg1.2.1-9+deb7u2
debian 8openslp-dfsg1.2.1-10+deb8u2
Oracle Linux 6openslp, openslp-devel, openslp-server1:2.0.0-3.el6
Oracle Linux 7openslp, openslp-devel, openslp-server1:2.0.0-7.el7_5
ubuntu 14.04openslp-dfsg1.2.1-9ubuntu0.3
ubuntu 14.04-ESMopenslp-dfsg1.2.1-9ubuntu0.3
ubuntu 16.04openslp-dfsg1.2.1-11ubuntu0.16.04.1
ubuntu 16.04-ESMopenslp-dfsg1.2.1-11ubuntu0.16.04.1
ubuntu 17.10openslp-dfsg1.2.1-11ubuntu0.17.10.1
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SourcePackageFixed in
amazon linux 2openslp1:2.0.0-7.amzn2
amazon linux 2openslp-debuginfo1:2.0.0-7.amzn2
amazon linux 2openslp-devel1:2.0.0-7.amzn2
amazon linux 2openslp-server1:2.0.0-7.amzn2
debian 7openslp-dfsg1.2.1-9+deb7u2
debian 8openslp-dfsg1.2.1-10+deb8u2
Oracle Linux 6openslp1:2.0.0-3.el6
Oracle Linux 6openslp-devel1:2.0.0-3.el6
Oracle Linux 6openslp-server1:2.0.0-3.el6
Oracle Linux 7openslp1:2.0.0-7.el7_5
Oracle Linux 7openslp-devel1:2.0.0-7.el7_5
Oracle Linux 7openslp-server1:2.0.0-7.el7_5
ubuntu 14.04openslp-dfsg1.2.1-9ubuntu0.3
ubuntu 14.04-ESMopenslp-dfsg1.2.1-9ubuntu0.3
ubuntu 16.04openslp-dfsg1.2.1-11ubuntu0.16.04.1
ubuntu 16.04-ESMopenslp-dfsg1.2.1-11ubuntu0.16.04.1
ubuntu 17.10openslp-dfsg1.2.1-11ubuntu0.17.10.1

References

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