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CVE-2018-16839

Date: October 31, 2018

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

9.8

Related Resources (14)

Url: https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-16839

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/3805-1/

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042012

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-16839

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16839

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00005.html

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-16839

Url: https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4331

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-03

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16839

Url: https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/f3a24d7916b9173c69a3e0ee790102993833d6c5

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8338a0f605bdbb3a6098bb76f666a95fc2b2f53f37fa1ecc89f1146f%40%3Cdevnull.infra.apache.org%3E

Url: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2018-16839.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2018-16839

Severity Score

9.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CWE-119

Integer Overflow or Wraparound

CWE-190

Heap-based Buffer Overflow

CWE-122

Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size

CWE-131

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	9.8
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.5
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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