Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1498-1 curl -- LTS security update

Date Reported:
08 Sep 2018
Affected Packages:
curl
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-14618, CVE-2018-14618.
More information:

It was discovered that there was a an integer overflow vulnerability in curl, a command line tool for transferring data over HTTP, etc.

For more information, please see:

https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2018-14618.html

For Debian 8 Jessie, this issue has been fixed in curl version 7.38.0-4+deb8u12.

We recommend that you upgrade your curl packages.