CVE-2017-8817 (GCVE-0-2017-8817)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-11-29 18:00
Modified
2024-08-05 16:48
Severity ?
CWE
  • out-of-bounds read
Summary
The FTP wildcard function in curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a string that ends with an '[' character.
References
security@debian.org http://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=162 Third Party Advisory
security@debian.org http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102057 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
security@debian.org http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039897 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
security@debian.org https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558
security@debian.org https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2017-ae72.html Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
security@debian.org https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00040.html
security@debian.org https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201712-04
security@debian.org https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4051 Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=162 Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102057 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039897 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2017-ae72.html Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00040.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201712-04
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4051 Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 Version: curl and libcurl before 7.57.0
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