| Name | CVE-2017-9502 |
| Description | In curl before 7.54.1 on Windows and DOS, libcurl's default protocol function, which is the logic that allows an application to set which protocol libcurl should attempt to use when given a URL without a scheme part, had a flaw that could lead to it overwriting a heap based memory buffer with seven bytes. If the default protocol is specified to be FILE or a file: URL lacks two slashes, the given "URL" starts with a drive letter, and libcurl is built for Windows or DOS, then libcurl would copy the path 7 bytes off, so that the end of the given path would write beyond the malloc buffer (7 bytes being the length in bytes of the ascii string "file://"). |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| curl (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 7.38.0-4+deb8u27 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 7.52.1-5+deb9u16 | fixed | |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 7.52.1-5+deb9u21 | fixed | |
| buster | 7.64.0-4+deb10u2 | fixed | |
| buster (security) | 7.64.0-4+deb10u9 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 7.74.0-1.3+deb11u11 | fixed | |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 7.88.1-10+deb12u5 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 8.7.1-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| curl | source | (unstable) | (not affected) |
- curl <not-affected> (Windows only)