Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-8817: Security patch for curl (ALAS-2018-938)
8
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
11/29/2017
07/25/2018
01/04/2018
10/14/2022
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
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