CVE-2017-8817

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    CVE-2017-8817

    Published: 29 Nov 2017Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: The FTP wildcard function in curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a string that ends with an '[' character.

    References: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00040.html, http://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=162, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102057, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039897, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558, https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2017-ae72.html, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201712-04, https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4051

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- e91d167ff8cb89523447680e3560f60d93615055
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    curl-7_56_1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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