CVE-2017-2922

Publication date 7 November 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

An exploitable memory corruption vulnerability exists in the Websocket protocol implementation of Cesanta Mongoose 6.8. A specially crafted websocket packet can cause a buffer to be allocated while leaving stale pointers which leads to a use-after-free vulnerability which can be exploited to achieve remote code execution. An attacker needs to send a specially crafted websocket packet over the network to trigger this vulnerability.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
smplayer	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

sbeattie

mongoose is used on windows only to serve up content for chromecast

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H