Out-of-Bounds Affecting libcurl-devel package, versions <0:7.61.1-9.amzn2.0.1
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- published 27 Sep 2021
- disclosed 31 Oct 2018
Introduced: 31 Oct 2018
CVE-2018-16839 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 libcurl-devel to version 0:7.61.1-9.amzn2.0.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2019-1162.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libcurl-devel package and not the libcurl-devel package as distributed by Amazon-Linux.
See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.
Curl versions 7.33.0 through 7.61.1 are vulnerable to a buffer overrun in the SASL authentication code that may lead to denial of service.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16839
- https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/f3a24d7916b9173c69a3e0ee790102993833d6c5
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16839
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4331
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-03
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2018-16839.html
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8338a0f605bdbb3a6098bb76f666a95fc2b2f53f37fa1ecc89f1146f@%3Cdevnull.infra.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00005.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042012
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3805-1/
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8338a0f605bdbb3a6098bb76f666a95fc2b2f53f37fa1ecc89f1146f%40%3Cdevnull.infra.apache.org%3E
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