From http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/05/16/2 RTSP bad headers buffer over-read ================================= Project curl Security Advisory, May 16th 2018 - [Permalink](https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2018-b138.html) VULNERABILITY ------------- curl can be tricked into reading data beyond the end of a heap based buffer used to store downloaded content. When servers send RTSP responses back to curl, the data starts out with a set of headers. curl parses that data to separate it into a number of headers to deal with those appropriately and to find the end of the headers that signal the start of the "body" part. The function that splits up the response into headers is called `Curl_http_readwrite_headers()` and in situations where it can't find a single header in the buffer, it might end up leaving a pointer pointing into the buffer instead of to the start of the buffer which then later on may lead to an out of buffer read when code assumes that pointer points to a full buffer size worth of memory to use. This could potentially lead to information leakage but most likely a crash/denial of service for applications if a server triggers this flaw. We are not aware of any exploit of this flaw. INFO ---- This bug was originally introduced in May 2003 in [this commit](https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/b2ef79ef3d47b37) but it didn't become a problem until we added RTSP in January 2010 in [this commit](https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/bc4582b68a673d3). We have only proven this to trigger with RTSP traffic even though this is code shared with HTTP. We believe this is not a problem for HTTP transfers. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned the name CVE-2018-1000301 to this issue. CWE-126: Buffer Over-read AFFECTED VERSIONS ----------------- - Affected versions: curl 7.20.0 to and including curl 7.59.0 - Not affected versions: curl < 7.20.0 and curl >= 7.60.0 libcurl is used by many applications, but not always advertised as such. THE SOLUTION ------------ In curl version 7.60.0, curl makes sure to restore the pointer back to where its supposed to point. A [patch for CVE-2018-1000301](https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2018-1000301.patch) is available. RECOMMENDATIONS --------------- We suggest you take one of the following actions immediately, in order of preference: A - Upgrade curl to version 7.60.0 B - Apply the patch to your version and rebuild TIME LINE --------- It was reported to the curl project on March 24, 2018 We contacted distros@...nwall on May 7, 2018. curl 7.60.0 was released on May 16 2018, coordinated with the publication of this advisory. CREDITS ------- Detected by OSS-fuzz. Assisted by Max Dymond. Patch by Daniel Stenberg. From http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/05/16/1: FTP shutdown response buffer overflow ===================================== Project curl Security Advisory, May 16th 2018 - [Permalink](https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2018-82c2.html) VULNERABILITY ------------- curl might overflow a heap based memory buffer when closing down an FTP connection with very long server command replies. When doing FTP transfers, curl keeps a spare "closure handle" around internally that will be used when an FTP connection gets shut down since the original curl easy handle is then already removed. FTP server response data that gets cached from the original transfer might then be larger than the default buffer size (16 KB) allocated in the "closure handle", which can lead to a buffer overwrite. The contents and size of that overwrite is controllable by the server. This situation was detected by an assert() in the code, but that was of course only preventing bad stuff in debug builds. This bug is very unlikely to trigger with non-malicious servers. We are not aware of any exploit of this flaw. INFO ---- This bug was introduced in April 2017 in [this commit](https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/e40e9d7f0decc79) when we introduced the use of increased buffer sizes for FTP. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned the name CVE-2018-1000300 to this issue. CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow AFFECTED VERSIONS ----------------- - Affected versions: curl 7.54.1 to and including curl 7.59.0 - Not affected versions: curl < 7.54.1 and curl >= 7.60.0 libcurl is used by many applications, but not always advertised as such. THE SOLUTION ------------ In curl version 7.60.0, curl will return an error if this situation happens. A [patch for CVE-2018-1000300](https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2018-1000300.patch) is available. RECOMMENDATIONS --------------- We suggest you take one of the following actions immediately, in order of preference: A - Upgrade curl to version 7.60.0 B - Apply the patch to your version and rebuild C - Avoing using FTP TIME LINE --------- It was reported to the curl project on March 22, 2018 We contacted distros@...nwall on May 7, 2018. curl 7.60.0 was released on May 16 2018, coordinated with the publication of this advisory. CREDITS ------- Detected by Dario Weisser. Patch by Daniel Stenberg. @maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 655266 ***
