Debian Security Advisory
DSA-4051-1 curl -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 29 Nov 2017
- Affected Packages:
- curl
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-8816, CVE-2017-8817.
- More information:
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Two vulnerabilities were discovered in cURL, an URL transfer library.
- CVE-2017-8816
Alex Nichols discovered a buffer overrun flaw in the NTLM authentication code which can be triggered on 32bit systems where an integer overflow might occur when calculating the size of a memory allocation.
- CVE-2017-8817
Fuzzing by the OSS-Fuzz project led to the discovery of a read out of bounds flaw in the FTP wildcard function in libcurl. A malicious server could redirect a libcurl-based client to an URL using a wildcard pattern, triggering the out-of-bound read.
For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 7.38.0-4+deb8u8.
For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 7.52.1-5+deb9u3.
We recommend that you upgrade your curl packages.
For the detailed security status of curl please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/curl
- CVE-2017-8816