Use After Free Affecting libcurl package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    1.28% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-LIBCURL-1357176
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 2 Nov 2016

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 libcurl.

NVD Description

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

The function read_data() in security.c in curl before version 7.51.0 is vulnerable to memory double free.