Bug 1503705 (CVE-2017-1000257) - CVE-2017-1000257 curl: IMAP FETCH response out of bounds read
Summary: CVE-2017-1000257 curl: IMAP FETCH response out of bounds read
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-1000257
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: 1505232 1505233 1505234 1505284 1505285 1505301 1505302
Blocks: 1503707
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-10-18 14:55 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 01:20 UTC (History)
35 users (show)

Fixed In Version: curl 7.56.1
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A buffer overrun flaw was found in the IMAP handler of libcurl. By tricking an unsuspecting user into connecting to a malicious IMAP server, an attacker could exploit this flaw to potentially cause information disclosure or crash the application.
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:29:41 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:3263 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: curl security update 2017-11-27 19:51:12 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:2486 0 None None None 2018-08-16 16:09:26 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:3558 0 None None None 2018-11-13 08:34:55 UTC

Description Andrej Nemec 2017-10-18 14:55:49 UTC 
An IMAP FETCH response line indicates the size of the returned data, in number
of bytes. When that response says the data is zero bytes, libcurl would pass
on that (non-existing) data with a pointer and the size (zero) to the
deliver-data function.

libcurl's deliver-data function treats zero as a magic number and invokes
strlen() on the data to figure out the length. The strlen() is called on a
heap based buffer that might not be zero terminated so libcurl might read
beyond the end of it into whatever memory lies after (or just crash) and then
deliver that to the application as if it was actually downloaded.

Introduced with:

https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/ec3bb8f727

External References:

https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20171023.html
Comment 3 Andrej Nemec 2017-10-18 14:58:37 UTC 
Mitigation:

Switch off IMAP in `CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS`
Comment 5 Adam Mariš 2017-10-19 10:55:06 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Curl project
Upstream: Brian Carpenter, the OSS-Fuzz project
Comment 6 Dhiru Kholia 2017-10-23 06:03:04 UTC 
Created curl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1505233]


Created mingw-curl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1505232]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1505234]
Comment 10 Tomas Hoger 2017-11-24 13:23:50 UTC 
Upstream commit:

https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/13c9a9ded3ae744a1e11cbc14e9146d9fa427040

OSS-Fuzz issue for this problem:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=3586
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2017-11-27 14:51:44 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:3263 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3263
Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2018-08-16 16:09:13 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 14 errata-xmlrpc 2018-11-13 08:34:43 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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