#VU7885 Out-of-bounds read in cURL - CVE-2017-1000101

 

#VU7885 Out-of-bounds read in cURL - CVE-2017-1000101

Published: August 15, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU7885
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-1000101
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
cURL
Software vendor:
curl.haxx.se

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to redirect website visitors to external websites.

The weakness exists due to out-of-bounds read. A local user can supply a URL containing specially crafted numerical range characters to trigger a heap read error and obtain potentially sensitive information from system memory

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in information disclosure.

Remediation

Update to version 7.55.0.

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