CVE-2018-16840
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-10-31 18:00
Modified
2024-08-05 10:32
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Summary
A heap use-after-free flaw was found in curl versions from 7.59.0 through 7.61.1 in the code related to closing an easy handle. When closing and cleaning up an 'easy' handle in the `Curl_close()` function, the library code first frees a struct (without nulling the pointer) and might then subsequently erroneously write to a struct field within that already freed struct.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042013Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16840Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2018-16840.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/curl/curl/commit/81d135d67155c5295b1033679c606165d4e28f3fPatch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-03Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3805-1/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
The Curl Projectcurl
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