vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-1000099: Security patch for curl (ALAS-2017-889)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Aug 31, 2017
Added
Dec 20, 2017
Modified
Feb 2, 2018

Description

When asking to get a file from a file:// URL, libcurl provides a feature that outputs meta-data about the file using HTTP-like headers. The code doing this would send the wrong buffer to the user (stdout or the application's provide callback), which could lead to other private data from the heap to get inadvertently displayed. The wrong buffer was an uninitialized memory area allocated on the heap and if it turned out to not contain any zero byte, it would continue and display the data following that buffer in memory.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-curl
Title
NEW

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