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CVE-2015-3144

curl: host name out of boundary memory access

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

2.6

CVSS 2.0

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Published · April 22, 2015

Updated · June 27, 2026

Description

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.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of curl as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 2.6
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read