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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-8817: Security patch for curl (ALAS-2018-938)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-8817: Security patch for curl (ALAS-2018-938)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/29/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/04/2018
Modified
05/07/2019

Description

The FTP wildcard function in curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a string that ends with an '[' character.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-curl

References

  • ALAS-2018-938
  • DSA-4051
  • CVE-2017-8817
  • USN-3498-1
  • USN-3498-2

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