Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-1000257

Title: Haxx Libcurl Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-1000257.

CWE Category CWE-119
Published Date Oct 31, 2017
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 9.1 CVSS v3.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
6.22%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-1000257: An IMAP FETCH response line indicates the size of the returned data, in number of bytes. When that response says the data is zero bytes, libcurl would pass on that (non-existing) data with a pointer and the size (zero) to the deliver-data function. libcurl's deliver-data function treats zero as a magic number and invokes strlen() on the data to figure out the length. The strlen() is called on a heap based buffer that might not be zero terminated so libcurl might read beyond the end of it into whatever memory lies after (or just crash) and then deliver that to the application as if it was actually downloaded.

Impacted Vendors

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haxx 1
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libcurl 1

Reference Links

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4007 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101519 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039644 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3263 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558 https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20171023.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201712-04 http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4007 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101519 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039644 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3263 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558 https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20171023.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201712-04
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
Severity CRITICAL
9.1
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS v3.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity CRITICAL
9.1
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
6.4
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

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CVE-2017-1000257 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

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PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.