CVE-2018-16840 Information

Description

A heap use-after-free flaw was found in curl versions from 7.59.0 through 7.61.1 in the code related to closing an easy handle. When closing and cleaning up an ’easy’ handle in the Curl_close() function the library code first frees a struct (without nulling the pointer) and might then subsequently erroneously write to a struct field within that already freed struct.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042013 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16840 https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2018-16840.html https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2018-16840.html https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/81d135d67155c5295b1033679c606165d4e28f3f https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/81d135d67155c5295b1033679c606165d4e28f3f https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-03 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3805-1/ A heap use-after-free flaw was found in curl versions from 7.59.0 through 7.61.1 in the code related to closing an easy handle. When closing and cleaning up an ’easy' handle in the Curl_close() function the library code first frees a struct (without nulling the pointer) and might then subsequently erroneously write to a struct field within that already freed struct. cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl::::::::

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