Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package curl (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-CURL-9899613
- published29 Apr 2025
- disclosed31 Oct 2018
Introduced: 31 Oct 2018
CVE-2018-16840 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream curl package and not the curl package as distributed by RHEL.
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.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1642203
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16840
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042013
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16840
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2018-16840.html
- https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/81d135d67155c5295b1033679c606165d4e28f3f
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-03
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3805-1/