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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-5436: Out-of-bounds Write

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-5436: Out-of-bounds Write

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/28/2019
Created
06/08/2019
Added
06/07/2019
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

A heap buffer overflow in the TFTP receiving code allows for DoS or arbitrary code execution in libcurl versions 7.19.4 through 7.64.1.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-curl
  • alpine-linux-upgrade-gnurl

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