UBUNTU-CVE-2018-0500

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-0500
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-0500.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-0500
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Published
2018-07-11T00:00:00Z
Modified
2025-07-18T16:44:21Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

Curlsmtpescapeeob in lib/smtp.c in curl 7.54.1 to and including curl 7.60.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow that might be exploitable by an attacker who can control the data that curl transmits over SMTP with certain settings (i.e., use of a nonstandard --limit-rate argument or CURLOPTBUFFERSIZE value).

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / curl

Package

Name
curl
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/curl@7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2

Affected versions

7.*

7.55.1-1ubuntu2
7.55.1-1ubuntu2.1
7.57.0-1ubuntu1
7.58.0-2ubuntu1
7.58.0-2ubuntu2
7.58.0-2ubuntu3
7.58.0-2ubuntu3.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "curl",
            "binary_version": "7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "curl-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl3-gnutls",
            "binary_version": "7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl3-gnutls-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl3-nss",
            "binary_version": "7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl3-nss-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl4",
            "binary_version": "7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl4-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl4-doc",
            "binary_version": "7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl4-gnutls-dev",
            "binary_version": "7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl4-nss-dev",
            "binary_version": "7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libcurl4-openssl-dev",
            "binary_version": "7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2"
        }
    ]
}