Out-of-bounds Write Affecting curl package, versions <7.74.0-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.61% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE316-CURL-2841980
  • published 12 Dec 2020
  • disclosed 14 Dec 2020

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.16 curl to version 7.74.0-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 7.21.0 to and including 7.73.0 is vulnerable to uncontrolled recursion due to a stack overflow issue in FTP wildcard match parsing.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

Recommended
7.5 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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SUSE

6.5 medium
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Red Hat

6.5 medium