CVE-2018-16839
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.3 · CWE-122
4.3CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
Curl versions 7.33.0 through 7.61.1 are vulnerable to a buffer overrun in the SASL authentication code that may lead to denial of service.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactLow
Exploit probability (EPSS)6%
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2018-16839.html ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2018-16839.htmlPatch
- https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/f3a24d7916b9173c69a3e0ee790102993833d6c5Patch
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042012Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16839Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8338a0f605bdbb3a6098bb76f666a95fc2b2f53f37fa1ecc89f1146f%40%3Cdevnull.infra.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00005.htmlAdvisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-03Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3805-1/Advisory