CVE-2017-8817 Information

Description

The FTP wildcard function in curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a string that ends with an ‘[’ character.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=162 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102057 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039897 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558 https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2017-ae72.html https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2017-ae72.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00040.html [debian-lts-announce] 20171130 [SECURITY] [DLA 1195-1] curl security update https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201712-04 https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4051 The FTP wildcard function in curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a string that ends with an ‘[’ character. cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:::::::: cpe:2.3:a:haxx:libcurl::::::::

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8