SB2019020629 - Heap out-of-bounds read in curl (Alpine package)

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SB2019020629 - Heap out-of-bounds read in curl (Alpine package)

Published: February 6, 2019

Security Bulletin ID SB2019020629
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Information disclosure

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Heap out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-3823)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information or cause the service to crash.

The vulnerability exists due to a heap out-of-bounds read in the code handling the end-of-response for SMTP. If the buffer passed to `smtp_endofresp()` isn't NUL terminated and contains no character ending the parsed number, and `len` is set to 5, then the `strtol()` call reads beyond the allocated buffer. A remote attacker can trigger heap out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system or cause the service to crash..


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References