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CVE-2018-0500

Publication date 11 July 2018

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Curl_smtp_escape_eob in lib/smtp.c in curl 7.54.1 to and including curl 7.60.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow that might be exploitable by an attacker who can control the data that curl transmits over SMTP with certain settings (i.e., use of a nonstandard --limit-rate argument or CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE value).

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
curl 18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2
17.10 artful
Fixed 7.55.1-1ubuntu2.6
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

introduced by: https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/e40e9d7f0decc79 curl 7.54.1 to and including curl 7.60.0

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8 · Critical
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

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