CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-1000099
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-10-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
Description
When asking to get a file from a file:// URL, libcurl provides a feature that outputs meta-data about the file using HTTP-like headers. The code doing this would send the wrong buffer to the user (stdout or the application's provide callback), which could lead to other private data from the heap to get inadvertently displayed. The wrong buffer was an uninitialized memory area allocated on the heap and if it turned out to not contain any zero byte, it would continue and display the data following that buffer in memory.
Affected configurations
• haxx libcurl 7.54.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100281 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039119 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://curl.haxx.se/0809C.patch Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-14 Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20170809C.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100281 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039119 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://curl.haxx.se/0809C.patch Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-14 Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry