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Out-of-bounds Read Affecting curl package, versions <0:7.29.0-42.el7_4.2

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.48% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-CURL-4860876
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed16 May 2018
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Introduced: 16 May 2018

CVE-2018-1000301  (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_4.2 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2020:0594.

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.

curl version curl 7.20.0 to and including curl 7.59.0 contains a CWE-126: Buffer Over-read vulnerability in denial of service that can result in curl can be tricked into reading data beyond the end of a heap based buffer used to store downloaded RTSP content.. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in curl < 7.20.0 and curl >= 7.60.0.

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