CVE-2018-0500

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    CVE-2018-0500

    Published: 11 Jul 2018Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Curl_smtp_escape_eob in lib/smtp.c in curl 7.54.1 to and including curl 7.60.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow that might be exploitable by an attacker who can control the data that curl transmits over SMTP with certain settings (i.e., use of a nonstandard --limit-rate argument or CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE value).

    References: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041280, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201807-04, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3710-1/, https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2018-70a2.html, https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/ba1dbd78e5f1ed67c1b8d37ac89d90e5e330b628

    Affected packages

    Package

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 54b636f14546d3fde9f9c67c3b32701d78563161
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    curl-7_60_0

    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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