CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-0500
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-07-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
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).
Affected configurations
• haxx curl (>= 7.54.1 <= 7.60.0)
• canonical ubuntu linux 17.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041280 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486 Third Party Advisory
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2018-70a2.html Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/ba1dbd78e5f1ed67c1b8d37ac89d90e5e330b628 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201807-04 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3710-1/ Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041280 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486 Third Party Advisory
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2018-70a2.html Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/ba1dbd78e5f1ed67c1b8d37ac89d90e5e330b628 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201807-04 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3710-1/ Third Party Advisory