How severe is CVE-2017-0038?

This vulnerability has a severity rating of MEDIUM with a CVSS score of 5.5 out of 10.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2017-0038?

This is classified as CWE-200, which is a common weakness in software security.

CVE-2017-0038 - MEDIUM Severity | CVSS 5.5

Vulnerability Description

gdi32.dll in Graphics Device Interface (GDI) in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, and Windows 10 Gold, 1511, and 1607 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process heap memory via a crafted EMF file, as demonstrated by an EMR_SETDIBITSTODEVICE record with modified Device Independent Bitmap (DIB) dimensions. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-3216, CVE-2016-3219, and/or CVE-2016-3220.

Related Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-3893

MEDIUM

CVSS:5.5(Medium)

Microsoft Bitlocker in Windows Vista before SP1 stores pre-boot authentication passwords in the BIOS Keyboard buffer and does not clear this buffer during boot, which allows local users to obtain sens...

CWE-2002008

CVE-2010-2538

MEDIUM

CVSS:5.5(Medium)

Integer overflow in the btrfs_ioctl_clone function in fs/btrfs/ioctl.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.35 might allow local users to obtain sensitive information via a BTRFS_IOC_CLONE_RANGE ioctl call.

CWE-2002010

CVE-2010-3078

MEDIUM

CVSS:5.5(Medium)

The xfs_ioc_fsgetxattr function in fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc4 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sen...

CWE-2002010

CVE-2011-2898

MEDIUM

CVSS:5.5(Medium)

net/packet/af_packet.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39.3 does not properly restrict user-space access to certain packet data structures associated with VLAN Tag Control Information, which allows loc...

CWE-2002011

CVE-2011-4915

MEDIUM

CVSS:5.5(Medium)

fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel through 3.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive keystroke information via access to /proc/interrupts.

CWE-2002011

CVE-2011-4916

MEDIUM

CVSS:5.5(Medium)

Linux kernel through 3.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive keystroke information via access to /dev/pts/ and /dev/tty*.

CWE-2002011