CVE-2017-8816 (GCVE-0-2017-8816)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-11-29 18:00
Modified
2026-04-15 21:01
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • integer overflow
Summary
The NTLM authentication feature in curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 on 32-bit platforms allows attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and resultant buffer overflow, and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving long user and password fields.
References
http://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=161 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201712-04 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2017-12e7.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101998 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039896 vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4051 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040608 vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 Version: curl and libcurl before 7.57.0
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