SB2017120768 - Denial of service in curl (Alpine package)
Published: December 7, 2017
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017120768
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Denial of service (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-8818)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to too little memory is allocated for interfacing to an SSL library. A remote attacker can trigger a memory allocation error in SSL-related code and cause the application to crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.