CVE catalog

CVE-2017-7938

dmitry: CVE-2017-7938

[CVE catalog]

Severity
Medium
Published
Source
[NVD] · [CVE record]
EPSS
4.99% · Oct 25, 2026

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.

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.

DistributionPackageReleaseVersionStatus
Debiandmitrysid1.3a-8fixed
Debiandmitryforky1.3a-8fixed
Debiandmitrytrixie1.3a-6fixed
Debiandmitrybookworm1.3a-1.2+deb12u1fixed
Ubuntudmitry16.041.3a-1vulnerable
Ubuntudmitry18.041.3a-1vulnerable
Ubuntudmitry18.041.3a-1build1vulnerable
Ubuntudmitry20.041.3a-1build1vulnerable
Ubuntudmitry22.041.3a-1.1vulnerable
Ubuntudmitry22.041.3a-1.2vulnerable
Ubuntudmitry24.041.3a-2vulnerable
Ubuntudmitry24.041.3a-3vulnerable
Ubuntudmitry25.101.3a-6vulnerable

Fixed-version evidence

DistributionPackageTypeReleaseFixed versionUrgencyOriginBugs
Debiandmitrysourcesid1.3a-5not yet assignedNot reported[1070370]
Debiandmitrysourceforky1.3a-5not yet assignedNot reported[1070370]
Debiandmitrysourcetrixie1.3a-5not yet assignedNot reported[1070370]
Debiandmitrysourcebookworm1.3a-1.2+deb12u1not yet assignedNot reported[1070370]

[Debian bug #1070370]

OpenFactory catalog packages

Matching against OpenFactory catalog package versions is in progress.

[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]

  • [dmitry]Unknown
    Details (2)
    • 1.3a-1.2+deb12u1 · amd64 · bookworm

      Fixed · Fixed: 1.3a-1.2+deb12u1

      dsa · dmitry · debian · bookworm; dsa · dmitry · debian · 12

    • 1.3a-1.2+deb12u1 · arm64 · bookworm

      Fixed · Fixed: 1.3a-1.2+deb12u1

      dsa · dmitry · debian · bookworm; dsa · dmitry · debian · 12

[Debian 13 (Trixie)]

  • [dmitry]Unknown

    Source package: [dmitry]

    Details (2)
    • 1.3a-6 · amd64 · trixie

      Fixed · Fixed: 1.3a-5

      dsa · dmitry · debian · 13

    • 1.3a-6+b1 · arm64 · trixie

      Fixed · Fixed: 1.3a-5

      dsa · dmitry · debian · 13

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