Out-of-Bounds Affecting curl package, versions [,7.54.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CURL-2317566
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed14 Jun 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Jun 2017

CVE-2017-9502  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade curl to version 7.54.1 or higher.

Overview

curl is a command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. In curl before 7.54.1 on Windows and DOS, libcurl's default protocol function, which is the logic that allows an application to set which protocol libcurl should attempt to use when given a URL without a scheme part, had a flaw that could lead to it overwriting a heap based memory buffer with seven bytes. If the default protocol is specified to be FILE or a file: URL lacks two slashes, the given "URL" starts with a drive letter, and libcurl is built for Windows or DOS, then libcurl would copy the path 7 bytes off, so that the end of the given path would write beyond the malloc buffer (7 bytes being the length in bytes of the ascii string "file://").

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