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CVE-2020-8285: Out-of-bounds Write

December 14, 2020 (updated July 20, 2021)

curl is vulnerable to uncontrolled recursion due to a stack overflow issue in FTP wildcard match parsing.

References

  • curl.se/docs/CVE-2020-8285.html
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8285

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 7.21.0 before 7.74.0

Fixed versions

  • 7.77.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 7.77.0 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-674: Uncontrolled Recursion
  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

Source file

conan/libcurl/CVE-2020-8285.yml

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