Bug 1388377 (CVE-2016-8617) - CVE-2016-8617 curl: Out-of-bounds write via unchecked multiplication
Summary: CVE-2016-8617 curl: Out-of-bounds write via unchecked multiplication
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-8617
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1390894 1390895 1390896
Blocks: 1388393
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-10-25 08:18 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:08 UTC (History)
34 users (show)

Fixed In Version: curl 7.51.0
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:00:54 UTC
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Upstream patch (739 bytes, patch)
2016-10-25 08:54 UTC, Andrej Nemec
no flags Details | Diff


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:2486 0 None None None 2018-08-16 16:07:10 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:3558 0 None None None 2018-11-13 08:33:03 UTC

Description Andrej Nemec 2016-10-25 08:18:06 UTC
In libcurl's base64 encode function, the output buffer is allocated as follows
without any checks on insize:

     malloc( insize * 4 / 3 + 4 )

On systems with 32-bit addresses in userspace (e.g. x86, ARM, x32), the
multiplication in the expression wraps around if insize is at least 1GB of
data. If this happens, an undersized output buffer will be allocated, but the
full result will be written, thus causing the memory behind the output buffer
to be overwritten.

If a username is set directly via `CURLOPT_USERNAME` (or curl's `-u, --user`
option), this vulnerability can be triggered. The name has to be at least
512MB big in a 32bit system.

Systems with 64 bit versions of the `size_t` type are not affected by this
issue.

External References:

https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102C.html

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-10-25 08:54:49 UTC
Created attachment 1213772 [details]
Upstream patch

Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2016-11-02 08:26:32 UTC
Created curl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1390894]

Comment 3 Adam Mariš 2016-11-02 08:26:47 UTC
Created mingw-curl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1390895]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1390896]

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2018-08-16 16:06:56 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Core Services

Via RHSA-2018:2486 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2018-11-13 08:32:48 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 EUS

Via RHSA-2018:3558 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558


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