The FTP wildcard function in curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a string that ends with an '[' character.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2017-8817 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
CVSS3 Base Score | 3.1 |
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CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
Attack Vector | Network |
Attack Complexity | High |
Privileges Required | None |
User Interaction | Required |
Scope | Unchanged |
Confidentiality | Low |
Integrity Impact | None |
Availability Impact | None |
Platform | Errata | Release Date |
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Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (httpd24-curl) | RHSA-2018:3558 | 2018-11-13 |
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (httpd24-curl) | RHSA-2018:3558 | 2018-11-13 |
Platform | Package | State |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | curl | Will not fix |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | curl | Not affected |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | curl | Not affected |
.NET Core 2.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux | rh-dotnet20-curl | Will not fix |
.NET Core 2.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux | rh-dotnet21-curl | Will not fix |
.NET Core 1.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux | rh-dotnetcore10-curl | Will not fix |
.NET Core 1.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux | rh-dotnetcore11-curl | Will not fix |