CVE-2017-1000101

Public on 2017-08-31
Modified on 2017-08-31
Description
curl supports "globbing" of URLs, in which a user can pass a numerical range to have the tool iterate over those numbers to do a sequence of transfers. In the globbing function that parses the numerical range, there was an omission that made curl read a byte beyond the end of the URL if given a carefully crafted, or just wrongly written, URL. The URL is stored in a heap based buffer, so it could then be made to wrongly read something else instead of crashing. An example of a URL that triggers the flaw would be `http://ur%20[0-60000000000000000000`.
Severity
Low severity
Low
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.2
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 curl 2017-08-31 ALAS-2017-889 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 4.2 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
NVD CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N