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Debian: CVE-2018-1000301: curl -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2018-1000301: curl -- security update

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/16/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/18/2018
Modified
02/28/2020

Description

curl version curl 7.20.0 to and including curl 7.59.0 contains a CWE-126: Buffer Over-read vulnerability in denial of service that can result in curl can be tricked into reading data beyond the end of a heap based buffer used to store downloaded RTSP content.. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in curl < 7.20.0 and curl >= 7.60.0.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-curl

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