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Out-of-bounds Read Affecting curl package, versions <0:7.29.0-42.el7_4.1

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.19% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-CURL-4787228
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed23 Oct 2017
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Introduced: 23 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-1000257  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 curl to version 0:7.29.0-42.el7_4.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2017:3263.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream curl package and not the curl package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 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.