cve-2018-16842
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-10-31 19:00
Modified
2024-08-05 10:32
Severity ?
4.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
Summary
Curl versions 7.14.1 through 7.61.1 are vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in the tool_msgs.c:voutf() function that may result in information exposure and denial of service.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042014Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2181
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16842Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2018-16842.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/curl/curl/commit/d530e92f59ae9bb2d47066c3c460b25d2ffeb211Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00005.htmlMailing List, 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
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3805-2/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4331Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html
Impacted products
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