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Vigil@nce - libcurl: buffer overflow via Curl_auth_create_plain_message
December 2018 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/offer
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: OpenOffice, curl, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE
Leap, Solaris, Slackware, SLES, Ubuntu, WindRiver Linux.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: user access/rights, denial of service on service,
denial of service on client.
Provenance: intranet client.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 31/10/2018.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can generate a buffer overflow via
Curl_auth_create_plain_message() of libcurl, in order to trigger a
denial of service, and possibly to run code.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/libcurl-buffer-overflow-via-Curl-auth-create-plain-message-27648
