PT-2017-19171 · Genivia+1 · Gsoap+1

Victor Pereira · Published 2017-07-20 · Updated 2025-07-27 · CVE-2017-9765

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.1

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions gSOAP versions 2.7.x through 2.8.47

Description The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service via a large XML document. This can lead to a stack-based buffer overflow and application crash.

Recommendations For gSOAP versions 2.7.x through 2.8.47, update to version 2.8.48 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the size of XML documents processed by the soap get function to prevent exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

DoS

Integer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-190

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2019-1132

CVE-2017-9765

DLA-1036-1

MGASA-2017-0221

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10825-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Gsoap

References · 21

• 🔥 http://blog.senr.io/devilsivy.html · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9765 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9765 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9765 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9765 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9765 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0221.html · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9765 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0221 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-9765 · Vendor Advisory
• https://genivia.com/changelog.html#Version_2.8.48_upd_%2806/21/2017%29 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10825-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9765 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/99868 · Note
• http://blog.senr.io/blog/devils-ivy-flaw-in-widely-used-third-party-code-impacts-millions · Note