CVE-2018-1000300

Publication date 16 May 2018

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

curl version curl 7.54.1 to and including curl 7.59.0 contains a CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in denial of service and more that can result in curl might overflow a heap based memory buffer when closing down an FTP connection with very long server command replies.. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in curl < 7.54.1 and curl >= 7.60.0.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
curl 18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 7.58.0-2ubuntu3.1
17.10 artful
Fixed 7.55.1-1ubuntu2.5
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

curl 7.54.1 to and including curl 7.59.0 introduced by https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/e40e9d7f0decc79

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

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