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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-0500: cURL: Heap-based buffer overflow

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-0500: cURL: Heap-based buffer overflow

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/11/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
07/30/2018
Modified
03/16/2020

Description

Curl_smtp_escape_eob in lib/smtp.c in curl 7.54.1 to and including curl 7.60.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow that might be exploitable by an attacker who can control the data that curl transmits over SMTP with certain settings (i.e., use of a nonstandard --limit-rate argument or CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE value).

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-misc-curl

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