CVE-2018-16890
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.4 Medium
- Published
- Feb 6, 2019
- Updated
- Apr 15, 2026
- Reserved
- Sep 11, 2018
Description
libcurl versions from 7.36.0 to before 7.64.0 is vulnerable to a heap buffer out-of-bounds read. The function handling incoming NTLM type-2 messages (`lib/vauth/ntlm.c:ntlm_decode_type2_target`) does not validate incoming data correctly and is subject to an integer overflow vulnerability. Using that overflow, a malicious or broken NTLM server could trick libcurl to accept a bad length + offset combination that would lead to a buffer read out-of-bounds.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 5.4 Medium | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L | redhat |
Weaknesses
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
curlThe curl Project |
|
References
- DSA-4386vendor-advisory
- 106947vdb-entry
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2018-16890.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190315-0001/
- USN-3882-1vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16890
- [infra-devnull] 20190404 [GitHub] [incubator-openwhisk-runtime-ballerina] falkzoll commented on issue #15: Update to new base image jdk8u202-b08_openj9-0.12.1.mailing-list
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-436177.pdf
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2019-5072835.html
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K03314397?utm_source=f5support&%3Butm_medium=RSS
- RHSA-2019:3701vendor-advisory
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