usn-3498-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2017-11-29 13:19
Modified
2026-04-27 08:06
Summary
curl vulnerabilities
Details
Alex Nichols discovered that curl incorrectly handled NTLM authentication credentials. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause curl to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 17.04 and Ubuntu 17.10. (CVE-2017-8816)
It was discovered that curl incorrectly handled FTP wildcard matching. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause curl to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2017-8817)
References
| URL | Type | |
|---|---|---|
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"details": "Alex Nichols discovered that curl incorrectly handled NTLM authentication\ncredentials. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause curl to crash,\nresulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This\nissue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 17.04 and Ubuntu 17.10.\n(CVE-2017-8816)\n\nIt was discovered that curl incorrectly handled FTP wildcard matching. A\nremote attacker could use this issue to cause curl to crash, resulting in a\ndenial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information.\n(CVE-2017-8817)\n",
"id": "USN-3498-1",
"modified": "2026-04-27T08:06:51Z",
"published": "2017-11-29T13:19:11Z",
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