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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-8818: Vulnerability in libcurl

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-8818: Vulnerability in libcurl

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/29/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/18/2018
Modified
02/01/2022

Description

curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 on 32-bit platforms allow attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact because too little memory is allocated for interfacing to an SSL library.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-curl-7-59-0-0-175-3-33-0-3-0

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