CVE-2018-16839

critical

Description

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.

References

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-10-31

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

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

Severity: Critical