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Bug 1388386 - (CVE-2016-8622) CVE-2016-8622 curl: URL unescape heap overflow via integer truncation
CVE-2016-8622 curl: URL unescape heap overflow via integer truncation
Status: NEW
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
unspecified
All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=low,public=20161102,reported=2...
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Depends On: 1390896 1390894 1390895
Blocks: 1388393
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Reported: 2016-10-25 04:32 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2018-08-16 12:07 EDT (History)
29 users (show)

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Fixed In Version: curl 7.51.0
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Upstream patch (4.25 KB, patch)
2016-10-25 05:02 EDT, Andrej Nemec
no flags Details | Diff


External Trackers
Tracker ID Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:2486 None None None 2018-08-16 12:07 EDT

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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-10-25 04:32:56 EDT
The URL percent-encoding decode function in libcurl is called
`curl_easy_unescape`. Internally, even if this function would be made to
allocate a unscape destination buffer larger than 2GB, it would return that
new length in a signed 32 bit integer variable, thus the length would get
either just truncated or both truncated and turned negative. That could then
lead to libcurl writing outside of its heap based buffer.

This can be triggered by a user on a 64bit system if the user can send in a
custom (very large) URL to a libcurl using program.

External References:

https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102H.html
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-10-25 05:02 EDT
Created attachment 1213778 [details]
Upstream patch
Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2016-11-02 04:28:46 EDT
Created curl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1390894]
Comment 3 Adam Mariš 2016-11-02 04:29:00 EDT
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 12:07:41 EDT
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

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