CVE-2017-8817

Publication date 29 November 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

The FTP wildcard function in curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a string that ends with an '[' character.

Status

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
Fixed 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.13

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

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