CVE-2018-1000301

Publication date 16 May 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.1 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

curl version curl 7.20.0 to and including curl 7.59.0 contains a CWE-126: Buffer Over-read vulnerability in denial of service that can result in curl can be tricked into reading data beyond the end of a heap based buffer used to store downloaded RTSP content.. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in curl < 7.20.0 and curl >= 7.60.0.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
curl 18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 7.58.0-2ubuntu3.1
17.10 artful
Fixed 7.55.1-1ubuntu2.5
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.8
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.16

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.1 · Critical
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

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