Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 5, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-1000099
CVE-2017-1000099
Description
When asking to get a file from a file:// URL, libcurl provides a feature that outputs meta-data about the file using HTTP-like headers. The code doing this would send the wrong buffer to the user (stdout or the application's provide callback), which could lead to other private data from the heap to get inadvertently displayed. The wrong buffer was an uninitialized memory area allocated on the heap and if it turned out to not contain any zero byte, it would continue and display the data following that buffer in memory.
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References
5- curl.haxx.se/0809C.patchnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-14nvdPatchThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/100281nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1039119nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20170809C.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
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