CVE-2017-9105 json
An issue was discovered in adns before 1.5.2.
published 2020-06-18 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-18043
- cvss
- 8.8
- version 3.1, NVD
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 3.7%
- EPSS 3.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
An issue was discovered in adns before 1.5.2. It corrupts a pointer when a nameserver speaks first because of a wrong number of pointer dereferences. This bug may well be exploitable as a remote code execution.
Patch / fix
- gnu adns 1.5.2
- adns Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.6.0-2
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9105
- adns SLES 11 SP4-LTSS, SLE Point of Sale 11 SP3 1.4-75.3.1
- adns SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES for SAP 12 SP3 +14 more 1.4-103.3.1
suse advisories SUSE-SU-2020:14399-1SUSE-SU-2020:1612-1
- adns openSUSE Leap 15.1 1.5.1-lp151.3.3.1
opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2020:0827-1
Vendor advisories
What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.
red hat product security vex CVE-2017-9105 updated cvss 8.8
adns: pointer corruption when a nameserver speaks first because of a wrong number of pointer dereferences
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Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat productsnot affected: vulnerable code not present
Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf
Exploit prediction
3.69% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVD | 3.1 | 8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVD | 2.0 | 7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
Classification
- Weakness
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- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
References
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lists.fedoraproject.org
/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TRVHN3GGVNQWAOL3PWC5FLAV7HUESLZR/
vendor-advisory
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lists.fedoraproject.org
/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UGFZ4SPV6KFQK6ZNUZFB5Y32OYFOM5YJ/
vendor-advisory
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chiark.greenend.org.uk
/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=adns.git
third-party-advisory
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chiark.greenend.org.uk
/pipermail/adns-announce/2020/000004.html
release-notes, third-party-advisory
- chiark.greenend.org.uk /ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=adns.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=changelog
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2017-9105
- NVD CVE-2017-9105
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