CVE-2018-1000300

Publication date 16 May 2018

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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

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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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3648-1
curl vulnerabilities
16 May 2018