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Use After Free Affecting libcurl-devel package, versions <0:7.61.1-9.amzn2.0.1

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    1.17% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-AMZN2-LIBCURLDEVEL-1668959
  • published 27 Sep 2021
  • disclosed 31 Oct 2018
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Introduced: 31 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-16840 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-416 Open this link in a new tab

How 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.

A heap use-after-free flaw was found in curl versions from 7.59.0 through 7.61.1 in the code related to closing an easy handle. When closing and cleaning up an 'easy' handle in the Curl_close() function, the library code first frees a struct (without nulling the pointer) and might then subsequently erroneously write to a struct field within that already freed struct.