Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libcurl package, versions <0:7.29.0-51.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.47% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-LIBCURL-1503808
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 16 May 2018

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 libcurl to version 0:7.29.0-51.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2018:3157.

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.

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.