Out-of-bounds Read Affecting curl package, versions <7.60.0-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.48% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE316-CURL-2841926
  • published 24 May 2018
  • disclosed 24 May 2018

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.16 curl to version 7.60.0-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream curl package and not the curl package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.16 relevant fixed versions and status.

curl version curl 7.20.0 to and including curl 7.59.0 contains a CWE-126: Buffer Over-read vulnerability in denial of service that can result in curl can be tricked into reading data beyond the end of a heap based buffer used to store downloaded RTSP content.. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in curl < 7.20.0 and curl >= 7.60.0.