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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-8817: cURL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 29, 2017
Added
Dec 18, 2017
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

The FTP wildcard function in curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a string that ends with an '[' character.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-misc-curl
Title
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