vulnerability
Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-0500: cURL: Heap-based buffer overflow
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Jul 11, 2018 | Jul 30, 2018 | Mar 31, 2026 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jul 11, 2018
Added
Jul 30, 2018
Modified
Mar 31, 2026
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
gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-misc-curl
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