CVE-2017-1000099

Summary

CVECVE-2017-1000099
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-10-05 01:29:00 UTC
Updated2017-11-01 19:23:00 UTC
DescriptionWhen 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-200

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Haxx Libcurl 7.54.1 All All All
Application Haxx Libcurl 7.54.1 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
cURL: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201709-14) — Gentoo Security GENTOO security.gentoo.org Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
curl: page not found CONFIRM curl.haxx.se Patch, Vendor Advisory
cURL 'file://' URL Processing Bug Lets Local Users View Portions of System Memory on the Target System - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
curl - FILE buffer read out of bounds MISC curl.haxx.se Vendor Advisory
Malformed Request BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 500119 Alpine Linux Security Update for curl
  • 503774 Alpine Linux Security Update for curl
  • 710401 Gentoo Linux cURL Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 201709-14)
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