CVE-2017-1000373

moderate-risk
Published 2017-06-19

The OpenBSD qsort() function is recursive, and not randomized, an attacker can construct a pathological input array of N elements that causes qsort() to deterministically recurse N/4 times. This allows attackers to consume arbitrary amounts of stack memory and manipulate stack memory to assist in arbitrary code execution attacks. This affects OpenBSD 6.1 and possibly earlier versions.

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18.8% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 81% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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1 public exploit available
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Patch status unknown
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CVSS 6.5/10 Medium
NETWORK / LOW complexity

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moderate-risk
Severity 24/34 · High
Exploitability 20/34 · Moderate
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal