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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-8816: curl Multiple vulnerabilities

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-8816: curl Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/29/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/08/2017
Modified
12/04/2019

Description

The NTLM authentication feature in curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 on 32-bit platforms allows attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and resultant buffer overflow, and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving long user and password fields.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-curl

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