Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package grpc  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-GRPC-615209
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed5 Jun 2017

Introduced: 5 Jun 2017

CVE-2017-9431  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream grpc package and not the grpc package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Google gRPC before 2017-04-05 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to core/lib/iomgr/error.c.