It was discovered that libcurl did not properly process zero-length host names. If an attacker could trick an application using libcurl into processing zero-length host names, this could lead to an out-of-bounds read, and possibly cause that application to crash.
Find out more about CVE-2015-3144 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Not vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of curl as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.
NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| Base Score | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | High |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
Find out more about Red Hat support for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | curl | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | curl | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | curl | Not affected |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.2 | curl | Not affected |
| RHEV Manager 3 | mingw-virt-viewer | Not affected |
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