CVE-2017-12963

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CVE-2017-12963

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CVE-2017-12963 at MITRE

Description

There is an illegal address access in Sass::Eval::operator() in eval.cpp of LibSass 3.4.5, leading to a remote denial of service attack. NOTE: this is similar to CVE-2017-11555 but remains exploitable after the vendor's CVE-2017-11555 fix (available from GitHub after 2017-07-24).

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

CVSS v3 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1054583 [RESOLVED / WORKSFORME]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Sat Aug 19 00:36:38 2017
CVE page last modified: Wed Oct 26 20:47:55 2022