CVE-2018-16842
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16842
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-16842.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-16842
- Aliases
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2018-10-31T19:29:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-10-13T07:25:31.491766Z
- Severity
-
- 9.1 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
Curl versions 7.14.1 through 7.61.1 are vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in the tool_msgs.c:voutf() function that may result in information exposure and denial of service.
- References
-
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042014
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2181
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16842
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2018-16842.html
- https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/d530e92f59ae9bb2d47066c3c460b25d2ffeb211
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00005.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-03
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3805-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3805-2/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4331
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html
Affected packages
Git / github.com/curl/curl
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/curl/curl
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixed
Affected versions
Other
before_ftp_statemachine
before_urldata_rename
curl-6_5
curl-6_5_1
curl-6_5_2
curl-7_10
curl-7_10_1
curl-7_10_2
curl-7_10_3
curl-7_10_4
curl-7_10_5
curl-7_10_6
curl-7_10_7
curl-7_10_8
curl-7_11_0
curl-7_11_1
curl-7_11_2
curl-7_12_0
curl-7_12_1
curl-7_12_2
curl-7_12_3
curl-7_13_0
curl-7_13_1
curl-7_13_2
curl-7_14_0
curl-7_14_1
curl-7_15_0
curl-7_15_1
curl-7_15_2
curl-7_15_3
curl-7_15_4
curl-7_15_5
curl-7_15_6-prepipeline
curl-7_16_0
curl-7_16_1
curl-7_16_2
curl-7_16_3
curl-7_16_4
curl-7_17_0
curl-7_17_0-preldapfix
curl-7_17_1
curl-7_18_0
curl-7_18_1
curl-7_18_2
curl-7_19_0
curl-7_19_1
curl-7_19_2
curl-7_19_3
curl-7_19_4
curl-7_19_5
curl-7_19_6
curl-7_19_7
curl-7_1_1
curl-7_2
curl-7_20_0
curl-7_20_1
curl-7_21_0
curl-7_21_1
curl-7_21_2
curl-7_21_3
curl-7_21_4
curl-7_21_5
curl-7_21_6
curl-7_21_7
curl-7_22_0
curl-7_23_0
curl-7_23_1
curl-7_24_0
curl-7_25_0
curl-7_26_0
curl-7_27_0
curl-7_28_0
curl-7_28_1
curl-7_29_0
curl-7_3
curl-7_30_0
curl-7_31_0
curl-7_32_0
curl-7_33_0
curl-7_34_0
curl-7_35_0
curl-7_36_0
curl-7_37_0
curl-7_37_1
curl-7_38_0
curl-7_39_0
curl-7_40_0
curl-7_41_0
curl-7_42_0
curl-7_43_0
curl-7_44_0
curl-7_45_0
curl-7_46_0
curl-7_47_0
curl-7_47_1
curl-7_48_0
curl-7_49_0
curl-7_49_1
curl-7_4_1
curl-7_5
curl-7_50_0
curl-7_50_1
curl-7_50_2
curl-7_50_3
curl-7_51_0
curl-7_52_0
curl-7_52_1
curl-7_53_0
curl-7_53_1
curl-7_54_0
curl-7_54_1
curl-7_55_0
curl-7_55_1
curl-7_56_0
curl-7_56_1
curl-7_57_0
curl-7_58_0
curl-7_59_0
curl-7_5_2
curl-7_6
curl-7_6-pre4
curl-7_60_0
curl-7_61_0
curl-7_61_1
curl-7_6_1
curl-7_6_1-pre1
curl-7_6_1-pre2
curl-7_6_1-pre3
curl-7_7
curl-7_7-beta1
curl-7_7-beta2
curl-7_7-beta3
curl-7_7-beta5
curl-7_7_1
curl-7_7_2
curl-7_7_3
curl-7_7_alpha2
curl-7_8
curl-7_8-pre2
curl-7_8_1
curl-7_8_1-pre3
curl-7_9
curl-7_9_1
curl-7_9_2
curl-7_9_3
curl-7_9_3-pre1
curl-7_9_3-pre2
curl-7_9_3-pre3
curl-7_9_4
curl-7_9_5
curl-7_9_5-pre2
curl-7_9_5-pre4
curl-7_9_6
curl-7_9_7
curl-7_9_7-pre2
curl-7_9_8
curl_7_6-pre3
Database specific
{
"vanir_signatures": [
{
"id": "CVE-2018-16842-1bc8b2d6",
"source": "https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/d530e92f59ae9bb2d47066c3c460b25d2ffeb211",
"deprecated": false,
"signature_version": "v1",
"signature_type": "Line",
"digest": {
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]
},
"target": {
"file": "src/tool_msgs.c"
}
},
{
"id": "CVE-2018-16842-ea38dff0",
"source": "https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/d530e92f59ae9bb2d47066c3c460b25d2ffeb211",
"deprecated": false,
"signature_version": "v1",
"signature_type": "Function",
"digest": {
"length": 701.0,
"function_hash": "276247327338978490978930240644272334443"
},
"target": {
"file": "src/tool_msgs.c",
"function": "voutf"
}
}
]
}