Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1581-1 uriparser -- LTS security update

Date Reported:
20 Nov 2018
Affected Packages:
uriparser
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-19198, CVE-2018-19199, CVE-2018-19200.
More information:

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in uriparser, an Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) parsing library.

  • CVE-2018-19198

    UriQuery.c allows an out-of-bounds write via a uriComposeQuery* or uriComposeQueryEx* function because the '&' character is mishandled in certain contexts.

  • CVE-2018-19199

    UriQuery.c allows an integer overflow via a uriComposeQuery* or uriComposeQueryEx* function because of an unchecked multiplication.

  • CVE-2018-19200

    UriCommon.c allows attempted operations on NULL input via a uriResetUri* function.

For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 0.8.0.1-2+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your uriparser packages.

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