CURL-CVE-2018-1000120

Source

https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2018-1000120.html

Import Source

https://curl.se/docs/CURL-CVE-2018-1000120.json

Aliases

• CVE-2018-1000120
• GHSA-674j-7m97-j2p9

Published

2018-03-14T08:00:00Z

Modified

2024-01-25T02:42:28.223539Z

Details

curl can be fooled into writing a zero byte out of bounds.

This bug can trigger when curl is told to work on an FTP URL, with the setting to only issue a single CWD command (--ftp-method singlecwd or the libcurl alternative CURLOPT_FTP_FILEMETHOD).

curl then URL-decodes the given path, calls strlen() on the result and deducts the length of the file name part to find the end of the directory within the buffer. It then writes a zero byte on that index, in a buffer allocated on the heap.

If the directory part of the URL contains a "%00" sequence, the directory length might end up shorter than the file name path, making the calculation size_t index = directory_len - filepart_len end up with a huge index variable for where the zero byte gets stored: heap_buffer[index] = 0. On several architectures that huge index will wrap and work as a negative value, thus overwriting memory before the intended heap buffer.

By using different file part lengths and putting %00 in different places in the URL, an attacker that can control what paths a curl-using application uses can write that zero byte on different indexes.

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