USN-3710-1

Peter Wu discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain SMTP buffers. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause curl to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / curl

Package

Name: curl
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/curl@7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2

Affected versions

7.*

7.55.1-1ubuntu2

7.55.1-1ubuntu2.1

7.57.0-1ubuntu1

7.58.0-2ubuntu1

7.58.0-2ubuntu2

7.58.0-2ubuntu3

7.58.0-2ubuntu3.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "curl",
            "binary_version": "7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl3-gnutls",
            "binary_version": "7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl3-nss",
            "binary_version": "7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl4",
            "binary_version": "7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl4-gnutls-dev",
            "binary_version": "7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl4-nss-dev",
            "binary_version": "7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl4-openssl-dev",
            "binary_version": "7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:18.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2018-0500"
        }
    ]
}