11/7/2018

USN-3710-1: curl vulnerability

First published: Wed Jul 11 2018(Updated: )

Peter Wu discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain SMTP buffers. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause curl to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Affected Software	Affected Version	How to fix
All of
ubuntu/curl	<7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2	7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2
	=18.04
All of
ubuntu/libcurl3-gnutls	<7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2	7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2
	=18.04
All of
ubuntu/libcurl3-nss	<7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2	7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2
	=18.04
All of
ubuntu/libcurl4	<7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2	7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2
	=18.04
All of
ubuntu/curl	<7.55.1-1ubuntu2.6	7.55.1-1ubuntu2.6
	=17.10
All of
ubuntu/libcurl3	<7.55.1-1ubuntu2.6	7.55.1-1ubuntu2.6
	=17.10
All of
ubuntu/libcurl3-gnutls	<7.55.1-1ubuntu2.6	7.55.1-1ubuntu2.6
	=17.10
All of
ubuntu/libcurl3-nss	<7.55.1-1ubuntu2.6	7.55.1-1ubuntu2.6
	=17.10

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(Contains the following vulnerabilities)

CVE-2018-0500

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