vulnerability
FreeBSD: VID-04f29189-1a05-11e7-bc6e-b499baebfeaf (CVE-2017-7407): cURL -- potential memory disclosure
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) | Apr 5, 2017 | Apr 10, 2017 | Dec 10, 2025 |
Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Apr 5, 2017
Added
Apr 10, 2017
Modified
Dec 10, 2025
Description
The cURL project reports: There were two bugs in curl's parser for the command line option --write-out (or -w for short) that would skip the end of string zero byte if the string ended in a % (percent) or \ (backslash), and it would read beyond that buffer in the heap memory and it could then potentially output pieces of that memory to the terminal or the target file etc.. This flaw only exists in the command line tool. We are not aware of any exploit of this flaw.
Solution
freebsd-upgrade-package-curl
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