vulnerability

Arch Linux: Information disclosure (CVE-2018-16842)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 31, 2018
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

Curl versions 7.14.1 through 7.61.1 are vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in the tool_msgs.c:voutf() function that may result in information exposure and denial of service.
This display function formats the output to wrap at 80 columns. The wrap logic is however flawed, so if a single word in the message is itself longer than 80 bytes the buffer arithmetic calculates the remainder wrong and will end up reading behind the end of the buffer.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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