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Critical USN-3498-1 2 CVEs

curl vulnerabilities

Published Nov 29, 2017 · Updated Apr 27, 2026

Summary

Alex Nichols discovered that curl incorrectly handled NTLM authentication
credentials. 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 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 17.04 and Ubuntu 17.10.
(CVE-2017-8816)

It was discovered that curl incorrectly handled FTP wildcard matching. A
remote attacker could use this issue to cause curl to crash, resulting in a
denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information.
(CVE-2017-8817)

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS curl 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.13
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS curl 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.5

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8816
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8817