ubuntu · CVE-2017-6438

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Priority: low Published: 2017-03-15 14:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:36:11 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2017-6438 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libplist), 9 status rows across 9 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 4, ignored 3, DNE 1, released 1.

Description:

Heap-based buffer overflow in the parse_unicode_node function in bplist.c in libimobiledevice libplist 1.12 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) and possibly code execution via a crafted plist file.

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