
CVE catalog
CVE-2017-7938
dmitry: CVE-2017-7938
- 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.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | dmitry | sid | 1.3a-8 | fixed |
| Debian | dmitry | forky | 1.3a-8 | fixed |
| Debian | dmitry | trixie | 1.3a-6 | fixed |
| Debian | dmitry | bookworm | 1.3a-1.2+deb12u1 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | dmitry | 16.04 | 1.3a-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | dmitry | 18.04 | 1.3a-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | dmitry | 18.04 | 1.3a-1build1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | dmitry | 20.04 | 1.3a-1build1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | dmitry | 22.04 | 1.3a-1.1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | dmitry | 22.04 | 1.3a-1.2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | dmitry | 24.04 | 1.3a-2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | dmitry | 24.04 | 1.3a-3 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | dmitry | 25.10 | 1.3a-6 | vulnerable |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | dmitry | source | sid | 1.3a-5 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [1070370] |
| Debian | dmitry | source | forky | 1.3a-5 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [1070370] |
| Debian | dmitry | source | trixie | 1.3a-5 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [1070370] |
| Debian | dmitry | source | bookworm | 1.3a-1.2+deb12u1 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [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 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
1.3a-1.2+deb12u1dsa · dmitry · debian · bookworm; dsa · dmitry · debian · 12
1.3a-1.2+deb12u1· arm64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
1.3a-1.2+deb12u1dsa · dmitry · debian · bookworm; dsa · dmitry · debian · 12
[Debian 13 (Trixie)]
Observed: