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CVE-2017-2784

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Description

An exploitable free of a stack pointer vulnerability exists in the x509 certificate parsing code of ARM mbed TLS before 1.3.19, 2.x before 2.1.7, and 2.4.x before 2.4.2. A specially crafted x509 certificate, when parsed by mbed TLS library, can cause an invalid free of a stack pointer leading to a potential remote code execution. In order to exploit this vulnerability, an attacker can act as either a client or a server on a network to deliver malicious x509 certificates to vulnerable applications.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published4/20/2017

Last Modified4/20/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

arm:mbed_tls

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-295

References

http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2017-0274/(talos-cna@cisco.com)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-18(talos-cna@cisco.com)

https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2017-01(talos-cna@cisco.com)

http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2017-0274/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-18(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/security-advisories/mbedtls-security-advisory-2017-01(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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