CVE-2017-8816

Publication date 29 November 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

The NTLM authentication feature in curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 on 32-bit platforms allows attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and resultant buffer overflow, and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving long user and password fields.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
curl	17.10 artful	Fixed 7.55.1-1ubuntu2.2
	17.04 zesty	Fixed 7.52.1-4ubuntu1.4
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)