Bugzilla – Bug 1005642
VUL-0: CVE-2016-8621: curl: curl_getdate read out of bounds
Last modified: 2018-09-05 11:05:33 UTC
curl_getdate read out of bounds =============================== Project cURL Security Advisory, November 2, 2016 - [Permalink](https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102G.html) VULNERABILITY ------------- The `curl_getdate` converts a given date string into a numerical timestamp and it supports a range of different formats and possibilites to express a date and time. The underlying date parsing function is also used internally when parsing for example HTTP cookies (possibly received from remote servers) and it can be used when doing conditional HTTP requests. The date parser function uses the libc sscanf() function at two places, with the parsing strings "%02d:%02d" and ""%02d:%02d:%02d". The intent being that it would parse either a string with HH:MM (two digits colon two digits) or HH:MM:SS (two digits colon two digits colon two digits). If instead the piece of time that was sent in had the final digit cut off, thus ending with a single-digit, the date parser code would advance its read pointer one byte too much and end up reading out of bounds. We are not aware of any exploit of this flaw. INFO ---- The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned the name CVE-2016-XXXX to this issue. AFFECTED VERSIONS ----------------- This flaw exists in the following curl versions. - Affected versions: curl 7.12.2 to and including 7.50.3 - Not affected versions: curl < 7.12.2 and curl >= 7.51.0 libcurl is used by many applications, but not always advertised as such! THE SOLUTION ------------ In version 7.51.0, the parser function is fixed. A [patch for CVE-2016-XXXX](https://curl.haxx.se/s3c/G.patch) is available. RECOMMENDATIONS --------------- We suggest you take one of the following actions immediately, in order of preference: A - Upgrade curl and libcurl to version 7.51.0 B - Apply the patch to your version and rebuild TIME LINE --------- It was first reported to the curl project on October 3 by Lu§t Nguyn. We contacted distros@openwall on October 19. curl 7.51.0 was released on November 2 2016, coordinated with the publication of this advisory. CREDITS ------- Thanks to Lu§t Nguyn.
From: Daniel Stenberg We intend to publish the advisories, the patches and announce the new release (7.51.0) with all of these problems fixed on November 2nd. CRD: 2016-11-02
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SUSE-SU-2016:2699-1: An update that fixes 11 vulnerabilities is now available. Category: security (important) Bug References: 1005633,1005634,1005635,1005637,1005638,1005640,1005642,1005643,1005645,1005646,998760 CVE References: CVE-2016-7167,CVE-2016-8615,CVE-2016-8616,CVE-2016-8617,CVE-2016-8618,CVE-2016-8619,CVE-2016-8620,CVE-2016-8621,CVE-2016-8622,CVE-2016-8623,CVE-2016-8624 Sources used: SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP1 (src): curl-7.37.0-31.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1 (src): curl-7.37.0-31.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1 (src): curl-7.37.0-31.1
SUSE-SU-2016:2700-1: An update that fixes 13 vulnerabilities is now available. Category: security (important) Bug References: 1005633,1005634,1005635,1005637,1005638,1005642,1005645,1005646,997420,998760 CVE References: CVE-2016-5420,CVE-2016-7141,CVE-2016-7167,CVE-2016-8615,CVE-2016-8616,CVE-2016-8617,CVE-2016-8618,CVE-2016-8619,CVE-2016-8620,CVE-2016-8621,CVE-2016-8622,CVE-2016-8623,CVE-2016-8624 Sources used: SUSE Studio Onsite 1.3 (src): curl-7.19.7-1.20.47.2
SUSE-SU-2016:2714-1: An update that fixes 11 vulnerabilities is now available. Category: security (important) Bug References: 1005633,1005634,1005635,1005637,1005638,1005642,1005645,1005646,998760 CVE References: CVE-2016-7167,CVE-2016-8615,CVE-2016-8616,CVE-2016-8617,CVE-2016-8618,CVE-2016-8619,CVE-2016-8620,CVE-2016-8621,CVE-2016-8622,CVE-2016-8623,CVE-2016-8624 Sources used: SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4 (src): curl-7.19.7-1.64.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 (src): curl-7.19.7-1.64.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SECURITY (src): curl-openssl1-7.19.7-1.64.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4 (src): curl-7.19.7-1.64.1
An update workflow for this issue was started. This issue was rated as moderate. Please submit fixed packages until 2016-11-18. When done, reassign the bug to security-team@suse.de. https://swamp.suse.de/webswamp/wf/63187
openSUSE-SU-2016:2768-1: An update that fixes 11 vulnerabilities is now available. Category: security (important) Bug References: 1005633,1005634,1005635,1005637,1005638,1005640,1005642,1005643,1005645,1005646,998760 CVE References: CVE-2016-7167,CVE-2016-8615,CVE-2016-8616,CVE-2016-8617,CVE-2016-8618,CVE-2016-8619,CVE-2016-8620,CVE-2016-8621,CVE-2016-8622,CVE-2016-8623,CVE-2016-8624 Sources used: openSUSE Leap 42.1 (src): curl-7.37.0-16.1
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