Out-of-Bounds Affecting curl package, versions <7.56.1-1


0.0
critical

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 2.19% (90th percentile)
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NVD
9.1 critical
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Red Hat
4.8 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-CURL-358455
  • published 31 Oct 2017
  • disclosed 31 Oct 2017

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 curl to version 7.56.1-1 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.

An IMAP FETCH response line indicates the size of the returned data, in number of bytes. When that response says the data is zero bytes, libcurl would pass on that (non-existing) data with a pointer and the size (zero) to the deliver-data function. libcurl's deliver-data function treats zero as a magic number and invokes strlen() on the data to figure out the length. The strlen() is called on a heap based buffer that might not be zero terminated so libcurl might read beyond the end of it into whatever memory lies after (or just crash) and then deliver that to the application as if it was actually downloaded.