SB2017120768 - Denial of service in curl (Alpine package)
Published: December 7, 2017
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017120768
CSH Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Partial DoS
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Denial of service (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-8818)
CWE-ID: CWE-119 - Memory corruption
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to too little memory is allocated for interfacing to an SSL library. A remote attacker can trigger a memory allocation error in SSL-related code and cause the application to crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.