It was discovered that libcurl did not properly process cookies with a specially crafted "path" element. If an application using libcurl connected to a malicious HTTP server sending specially crafted "Set-Cookies" headers, this could lead to an out-of-bounds read, and possibly cause that application to crash.
Find out more about CVE-2015-3145 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 | 4.3 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Medium |
| 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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