CVE-2018-0500

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-0500  

A heap-based buffer overflow has been found in the Curl_smtp_escape_eob() function of curl. An attacker could exploit this by convincing a user to use curl to upload data over SMTP with a reduced buffer to cause a crash or corrupt memory.

A heap-based buffer overflow has been found in the Curl_smtp_escape_eob() function of curl. An attacker could exploit this by convincing a user to use curl to upload data over SMTP with a reduced buffer to cause a crash or corrupt memory.

Find out more about CVE-2018-0500 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of curl/libcurl as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7 as they did not include the vulnerable code.

This issue did not affect the versions of curl/libcurl as shipped with Red Hat Software Collections 3 as they did not include the vulnerable code.

CVSS v3 metrics

CVSS3 Base Score 7.5
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat JBoss Core Services 1 RHSA-2018:2486 2018-08-16

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux httpd24-curl Not affected
Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 curl Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 curl Not affected
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 Not affected
.NET Core 2.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-dotnet21-curl Not affected
.NET Core 1.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-dotnetcore10-curl Not affected
.NET Core 1.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-dotnetcore11-curl Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Curl project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Peter Wu as the original reporter.

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