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CVE-2017-8818

curl: Out-of-bound access in SSL related cleanup code

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7.5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · November 29, 2017

Updated · May 13, 2026

Description

curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 on 32-bit platforms allow attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact because too little memory is allocated for interfacing to an SSL library.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read