CVE-2018-0500 (GCVE-0-2018-0500)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-07-11 13:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 03:28
VLAI
Summary
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).
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • heap-based buffer overflow
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041280 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/ba1dbd78e5f1e… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2018-70a2.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201807-04 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3710-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a curl before 7.61.0 Affected: curl before 7.61.0
Date Public
2018-07-11 00:00
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