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CVE-2018-1000005
- Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 4.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2018-01-24 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-125
Description
libcurl 7.49.0 to and including 7.57.0 contains an out bounds read in code handling HTTP/2 trailers. It was reported (https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/2231) that reading an HTTP/2 trailer could mess up future trailers since the stored size was one byte less than required. The problem is that the code that creates HTTP/1-like headers from the HTTP/2 trailer data once appended a string like `:` to the target buffer, while this was recently changed to `: ` (a space was added after the colon) but the following math wasn't updated correspondingly. When accessed, the data is read out of bounds and causes either a crash or that the (too large) data gets passed to client write. This could lead to a denial-of-service situation or an information disclosure if someone has a service that echoes back or uses the trailers for something.
Affected products
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 17.10
- Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
- curl: from 7.49.0 through 7.57.0
References
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040273
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1543
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2018-824a.html
- https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/2231
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3554-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4098
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040273
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1543
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2018-824a.html
- https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/2231
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3554-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4098
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