CVE-2017-8818 (GCVE-0-2017-8818)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-11-29 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 16:48
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • out-of-bounds access
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 Affected: curl and libcurl before 7.57.0
Date Public
2017-11-29 00:00
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