ubuntu · CVE-2017-8818

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Priority: medium Published: 2017-11-29 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:40:23 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2017-8818 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (curl), 5 status rows across 5 suites (artful, trusty, upstream, xenial, zesty): not-affected 4, released 1.

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.

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