Critical
Security advisory
An exploitable stack based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the GNOME libsoup 2.58. A specially crafted HTTP request can cause a stack overflow resulting in remote code execution. An attacker can send a special HTTP request to the vulnerable server to trigger this vulnerability.
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-2885
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- 1 Nov 2026, 06:26 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An exploitable stack based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the GNOME libsoup 2.58. A specially crafted HTTP request can cause a stack overflow resulting in remote code execution. An attacker can send a special HTTP request to the vulnerable server to trigger this vulnerability.
osv:CVE-2017-2885
Complete source record
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