Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package curl  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-CURL-600001
  • published19 Aug 2020
  • disclosed14 Jun 2017

Introduced: 14 Jun 2017

CVE-2017-9502  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:11.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream curl package and not the curl package as distributed by Debian.

In curl before 7.54.1 on Windows and DOS, libcurl's default protocol function, which is the logic that allows an application to set which protocol libcurl should attempt to use when given a URL without a scheme part, had a flaw that could lead to it overwriting a heap based memory buffer with seven bytes. If the default protocol is specified to be FILE or a file: URL lacks two slashes, the given "URL" starts with a drive letter, and libcurl is built for Windows or DOS, then libcurl would copy the path 7 bytes off, so that the end of the given path would write beyond the malloc buffer (7 bytes being the length in bytes of the ascii string "file://").