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CVE-2017-8818

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-11-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 on 32-bit platforms allow attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact because too little memory is allocated for interfacing to an SSL library.

Affected products

• curl: 7.56.0, 7.56.1
• curl: 7.56.0, 7.56.1

References

• http://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=163
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102014
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039898
• https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2017-af0a.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201712-04
• http://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=163
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102014
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039898
• https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2017-af0a.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201712-04

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