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Out-of-bounds Write Affecting curl package, versions <7.64.0-1

0.0
critical

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 17.09% (96th percentile)
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NVD
9.8 critical
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SUSE
7.5 high
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Red Hat
5.3 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-CURL-336289
  • published 6 Feb 2019
  • disclosed 6 Feb 2019
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Introduced: 6 Feb 2019

CVE-2019-3822 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-787 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 curl to version 7.64.0-1 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 Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

libcurl versions from 7.36.0 to before 7.64.0 are vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow. The function creating an outgoing NTLM type-3 header (lib/vauth/ntlm.c:Curl_auth_create_ntlm_type3_message()), generates the request HTTP header contents based on previously received data. The check that exists to prevent the local buffer from getting overflowed is implemented wrongly (using unsigned math) and as such it does not prevent the overflow from happening. This output data can grow larger than the local buffer if very large 'nt response' data is extracted from a previous NTLMv2 header provided by the malicious or broken HTTP server. Such a 'large value' needs to be around 1000 bytes or more. The actual payload data copied to the target buffer comes from the NTLMv2 type-2 response header.