CVE-2026-3805 (GCVE-0-2026-3805)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-03-11 10:09
Modified
2026-09-15 06:02
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Summary
When doing a second SMB request to the same host again, curl would wrongly use a data pointer pointing into already freed memory.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
curl curl Version: 8.13.0   ≤
Version: 8.15.0   ≤
Version: 8.17.0   ≤
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