CVE-2018-0500 (GCVE-0-2018-0500)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-07-11 13:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 03:28
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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).
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CWE
- heap-based buffer overflow
Assigner
References
6 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041280 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
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| https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2018-70a2.html | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201807-04 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/3710-1/ | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n/a | curl before 7.61.0 |
Affected:
curl before 7.61.0
|
Date Public
2018-07-11 00:00
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Nomenclature
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vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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