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CVE-2017-1000101

Publication date 4 October 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

curl supports "globbing" of URLs, in which a user can pass a numerical range to have the tool iterate over those numbers to do a sequence of transfers. In the globbing function that parses the numerical range, there was an omission that made curl read a byte beyond the end of the URL if given a carefully crafted, or just wrongly written, URL. The URL is stored in a heap based buffer, so it could then be made to wrongly read something else instead of crashing. An example of a URL that triggers the flaw would be `http://ur%20[0-60000000000000000000`.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
curl 17.04 zesty
Fixed 7.52.1-4ubuntu1.2
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.3
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.11

Notes

sbeattie

only affects curl command line tool, not libcurl introduced in 7.34.0

Patch details

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Package Patch details
curl

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

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