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Medium USN-3441-1 5 CVEs

curl vulnerabilities

Published Oct 10, 2017 · Updated Apr 27, 2026

Summary

Daniel Stenberg discovered that curl incorrectly handled large floating
point output. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause curl to
crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
(CVE-2016-9586)

Even Rouault discovered that curl incorrectly handled large file names when
doing TFTP transfers. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause curl
to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive
memory contents. (CVE-2017-1000100)

Brian Carpenter and Yongji Ouyang discovered that curl incorrectly handled
numerical range globbing. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause
curl to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly obtain
sensitive memory contents. (CVE-2017-1000101)

Max Dymond discovered that curl incorrectly handled FTP PWD responses. A
remote attacker could use this issue to cause curl to crash, resulting in a
denial of service. (CVE-2017-1000254)

Brian Carpenter discovered that curl incorrectly handled the --write-out
command line option. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to
obtain sensitive memory contents. (CVE-2017-7407)

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS curl 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.11
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS curl 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.3

Vulnerabilities 5

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9586
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7407
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-1000100
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-1000101
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-1000254