CVE-2018-1000005

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.5

Description

libcurl 7.49.0 to and including 7.57.0 contains an out bounds read in code handling HTTP/2 trailers. It was reported (https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/2231) that reading an HTTP/2 trailer could mess up future trailers since the stored size was one byte less than required. The problem is that the code that creates HTTP/1-like headers from the HTTP/2 trailer data once appended a string like `:` to the target buffer, while this was recently changed to `: ` (a space was added after the colon) but the following math wasn't updated correspondingly. When accessed, the data is read out of bounds and causes either a crash or that the (too large) data gets passed to client write. This could lead to a denial-of-service situation or an information disclosure if someone has a service that echoes back or uses the trailers for something.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
Fixed 7.58.0-1
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 7.58.0-1
sid Fixed 7.58.0-1
forky Fixed 7.58.0-1
bullseye Fixed 7.58.0-1
bookworm Fixed 7.58.0-1

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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