Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title cURL:Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Informations
Name GLSA-201807-04 First vendor Publication 2018-07-29
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2018-07-29
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A heap-based buffer overflow in cURL might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Background

A command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs.

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in cURL's Curl_smtp_escape_eob() function.

Impact

An attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition or execute arbitrary code via SMTP connections.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All cURL users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/curl-7.61.0"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2018-0500 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-0500

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201807-04

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201807-04.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 148
Os 2

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-57779d51c1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-09-21 Name : The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : PhotonOS_PHSA-2018-1_0-0186.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-09-21 Name : The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : PhotonOS_PHSA-2018-2_0-0096.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-08-10 Name : The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.
File : al2_ALAS-2018-1052.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-30 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_3849e28f869311e896109c5c8e75236a.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-30 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201807-04.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-12 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2018-192-02.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2018-09-11 17:21:50
  • Multiple Updates
2018-07-30 05:17:22
  • First insertion