vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-7407: curl -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Apr 3, 2017
Added
Apr 5, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

The ourWriteOut function in tool_writeout.c in curl 7.53.1 might allow physically proximate attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory in opportunistic circumstances by reading a workstation screen during use of a --write-out argument ending in a '%' character, which leads to a heap-based buffer over-read.

Solution

debian-upgrade-curl
Title
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