Vulnerabilities / CVE-2017-8818

critical

CVE-2017-8818

curl: Out-of-bound access in SSL related cleanup code

Published Modified CWE 119
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, Photon OS. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium), Amazon (medium).

Description

curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 on 32-bit platforms allow attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact because too little memory is allocated for interfacing to an SSL library.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
Photon OS 1.0curl7.56.1-2.ph1
Photon OS 2.0curl7.56.1-2.ph2
Photon OS 3.0curl7.61.1-2.ph3
alpine 3.10curl7.57.0-r0
alpine 3.11curl7.57.0-r0
alpine 3.12curl7.57.0-r0
alpine 3.13curl7.57.0-r0
alpine 3.14curl7.57.0-r0
alpine 3.15curl7.57.0-r0
alpine 3.16curl7.57.0-r0
alpine 3.17curl7.57.0-r0
alpine 3.18curl7.57.0-r0
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SourcePackageFixed in
Photon OS 1.0curl7.56.1-2.ph1
Photon OS 2.0curl7.56.1-2.ph2
Photon OS 3.0curl7.61.1-2.ph3
alpine 3.10curl7.57.0-r0
alpine 3.11curl7.57.0-r0
alpine 3.12curl7.57.0-r0
alpine 3.13curl7.57.0-r0
alpine 3.14curl7.57.0-r0
alpine 3.15curl7.57.0-r0
alpine 3.16curl7.57.0-r0
alpine 3.17curl7.57.0-r0
alpine 3.18curl7.57.0-r0
alpine 3.19curl7.57.0-r0
alpine 3.20curl7.57.0-r0
alpine 3.21curl7.57.0-r0
alpine 3.22curl7.57.0-r0
alpine 3.23curl7.57.0-r0
alpine 3.24curl7.57.0-r0
alpine 3.4curl7.57.0-r0
alpine 3.5curl7.57.0-r0
alpine 3.6curl7.57.0-r0
alpine 3.7curl7.57.0-r0
alpine 3.8curl7.57.0-r0
alpine 3.9curl7.57.0-r0
alpine edgecurl7.57.0-r0
amazon linux 2curl7.61.1-9.amzn2.0.1
amazon linux 2curl-debuginfo7.61.1-9.amzn2.0.1
amazon linux 2libcurl7.61.1-9.amzn2.0.1
amazon linux 2libcurl-devel7.61.1-9.amzn2.0.1
debian 11curl7.57.0-1
debian 12curl7.57.0-1
debian 13curl7.57.0-1
debian 14curl7.57.0-1
echocurl7.57.0-1
root.io debian 11rootio-curl7.57.0-1
root.io debian 12rootio-curl7.57.0-1
root.io debian 13rootio-curl7.57.0-1

References

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