CVE-2017-8816

Publication date 29 November 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
curl 17.10 artful
Fixed 7.55.1-1ubuntu2.2
17.04 zesty
Fixed 7.52.1-4ubuntu1.4
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3498-1
    • curl vulnerabilities
    • 29 November 2017

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