CVE-2017-8818

CRITICAL

curl and libcurl < 7.57.0 - Denial of Service via Memory Allocation Error

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201712-04
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2017-af0a.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039898
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=163
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102014

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0073
EPSS Percentile 72.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (5)
haxx/curl 7.56.0
haxx/curl 7.56.1
haxx/libcurl 7.56.0
haxx/libcurl 7.56.1
n/a/curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 curl and libcurl before 7.57.0
Published Nov 29, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026