UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8816

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8816
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8816.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8816
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Published
2017-11-29T00:00:00Z
Modified
2025-07-16T08:21:45.403206Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

The NTLM authentication feature in curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 on 32-bit platforms allows attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and resultant buffer overflow, and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving long user and password fields.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / curl

Package

Name
curl
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/curl@7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5

Affected versions

7.*

7.43.0-1ubuntu2
7.45.0-1ubuntu1
7.46.0-1ubuntu1
7.47.0-1ubuntu1
7.47.0-1ubuntu2
7.47.0-1ubuntu2.1
7.47.0-1ubuntu2.2
7.47.0-1ubuntu2.3
7.47.0-1ubuntu2.4

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "curl",
            "binary_version": "7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "curl-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl3",
            "binary_version": "7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl3-dbg",
            "binary_version": "7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl3-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl3-gnutls",
            "binary_version": "7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl3-gnutls-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl3-nss",
            "binary_version": "7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl3-nss-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl4-doc",
            "binary_version": "7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl4-gnutls-dev",
            "binary_version": "7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl4-gnutls-dev-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl4-nss-dev",
            "binary_version": "7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl4-nss-dev-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl4-openssl-dev",
            "binary_version": "7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl4-openssl-dev-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5"
        }
    ]
}