ubuntu-cve-2017-8817
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2017-11-29 00:00
Modified
2026-04-27 08:07
Summary
Details
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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
9.8 (Critical)
N/A (UNKNOWN)
References
{
"affected": [
{
"ecosystem_specific": {
"availability": "No subscription required",
"binaries": [
{
"binary_name": "curl",
"binary_version": "7.35.0-1ubuntu2.13"
},
{
"binary_name": "libcurl3",
"binary_version": "7.35.0-1ubuntu2.13"
},
{
"binary_name": "libcurl3-gnutls",
"binary_version": "7.35.0-1ubuntu2.13"
},
{
"binary_name": "libcurl3-nss",
"binary_version": "7.35.0-1ubuntu2.13"
}
]
},
"package": {
"ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
"name": "curl",
"purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/curl@7.35.0-1ubuntu2.13?arch=source\u0026distro=trusty"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "7.35.0-1ubuntu2.13"
}
],
"type": "ECOSYSTEM"
}
],
"versions": [
"7.32.0-1ubuntu1",
"7.33.0-1ubuntu1",
"7.34.0-1ubuntu1",
"7.35.0-1ubuntu1",
"7.35.0-1ubuntu2",
"7.35.0-1ubuntu2.1",
"7.35.0-1ubuntu2.2",
"7.35.0-1ubuntu2.3",
"7.35.0-1ubuntu2.5",
"7.35.0-1ubuntu2.6",
"7.35.0-1ubuntu2.7",
"7.35.0-1ubuntu2.8",
"7.35.0-1ubuntu2.9",
"7.35.0-1ubuntu2.10",
"7.35.0-1ubuntu2.11",
"7.35.0-1ubuntu2.12"
]
},
{
"ecosystem_specific": {
"availability": "No subscription required",
"binaries": [
{
"binary_name": "curl",
"binary_version": "7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5"
},
{
"binary_name": "libcurl3",
"binary_version": "7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5"
},
{
"binary_name": "libcurl3-gnutls",
"binary_version": "7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5"
},
{
"binary_name": "libcurl3-nss",
"binary_version": "7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5"
}
]
},
"package": {
"ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS",
"name": "curl",
"purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/curl@7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5?arch=source\u0026distro=xenial"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5"
}
],
"type": "ECOSYSTEM"
}
],
"versions": [
"7.43.0-1ubuntu2",
"7.45.0-1ubuntu1",
"7.46.0-1ubuntu1",
"7.47.0-1ubuntu1",
"7.47.0-1ubuntu2",
"7.47.0-1ubuntu2.1",
"7.47.0-1ubuntu2.2",
"7.47.0-1ubuntu2.3",
"7.47.0-1ubuntu2.4"
]
}
],
"aliases": [],
"details": "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 \u0027[\u0027 character.",
"id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8817",
"modified": "2026-04-27T08:07:36Z",
"published": "2017-11-29T00:00:00Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8817"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2017-ae72.html"
},
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3498-1"
},
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3498-2"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8817"
}
],
"related": [
"USN-3498-1",
"USN-3498-2"
],
"schema_version": "1.7.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
},
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
},
{
"score": "medium",
"type": "Ubuntu"
}
],
"upstream": [
"CVE-2017-8817"
]
}
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