It was discovered that the libcurl library failed to properly handle URLs with embedded end-of-line characters. An attacker able to make an application using libcurl access a specially crafted URL via an HTTP proxy could use this flaw to inject additional headers to the request or construct additional requests.
Find out more about CVE-2014-8150 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now in Production 3 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having Moderate security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.
| Base Score | 4.3 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Medium |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | None |
Find out more about Red Hat support for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (curl) | RHSA-2015:2159 | 2015-11-19 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (curl) | RHSA-2015:1254 | 2015-07-20 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | curl | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | curl | Will not fix |
| RHEV Manager 3 | mingw-virt-viewer | Will not fix |
Vulmon