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Cent OS: CVE-2013-2174: CESA-2013:0983 (curl)

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Cent OS: CVE-2013-2174: CESA-2013:0983 (curl)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/31/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/01/2016
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the curl_easy_unescape function in lib/escape.c in cURL and libcurl 7.7 through 7.30.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted string ending in a "%" (percent) character.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-curl
  • centos-upgrade-curl-devel
  • centos-upgrade-libcurl
  • centos-upgrade-libcurl-devel

References

  • DSA-2713
  • CVE-2013-2174
  • RHSA-2013:0983
  • USN-1894-1

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