Vulnerabilities / CVE-2017-7938

critical

CVE-2017-7938

Stack-based buffer overflow in DMitry (Deepmagic Information Gathering ...

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

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Ubuntu (medium).

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 10dmitryno fix listed
debian 11dmitry1.3a-1.1+deb11u1
debian 12dmitry1.3a-1.2+deb12u1
debian 13dmitry1.3a-5
debian 14dmitry1.3a-5
echodmitry1.3a-1.2+deb12u1
rapidfort ubuntu 20.04dmitry0:1.3a-8
rapidfort ubuntu 22.04dmitry0:1.3a-8
rapidfort ubuntu 24.04dmitry0:1.3a-8
ubuntu 18.04-ESMdmitryno fix listed
ubuntu 20.04-ESMdmitryno fix listed
ubuntu 22.04dmitryno fix listed
Show all 13 entries from 13 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
debian 10dmitryno fix listed
debian 11dmitry1.3a-1.1+deb11u1
debian 12dmitry1.3a-1.2+deb12u1
debian 13dmitry1.3a-5
debian 14dmitry1.3a-5
echodmitry1.3a-1.2+deb12u1
rapidfort ubuntu 20.04dmitry0:1.3a-8
rapidfort ubuntu 22.04dmitry0:1.3a-8
rapidfort ubuntu 24.04dmitry0:1.3a-8
ubuntu 18.04-ESMdmitryno fix listed
ubuntu 20.04-ESMdmitryno fix listed
ubuntu 22.04dmitryno fix listed
ubuntu 24.04dmitryno fix listed

References

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