Use of Uninitialized Resource Affecting libcurl-devel package, versions <0:7.61.1-22.el8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Oracle Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.42% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ORACLE8-LIBCURLDEVEL-2595847
  • published 10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed 5 Aug 2021

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:8 libcurl-devel to version 0:7.61.1-22.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2021-4511.

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 Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

curl supports the -t command line option, known as CURLOPT_TELNETOPTIONSin libcurl. This rarely used option is used to send variable=content pairs toTELNET servers.Due to flaw in the option parser for sending NEW_ENV variables, libcurlcould be made to pass on uninitialized data from a stack based buffer to theserver. Therefore potentially revealing sensitive internal information to theserver using a clear-text network protocol.This could happen because curl did not call and use sscanf() correctly whenparsing the string provided by the application.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

5.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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SUSE

4.3 medium
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Red Hat

3.1 low