Critical severity9.1NVD Advisory· Published Oct 31, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-1000257
CVE-2017-1000257
Description
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.
Affected products
3cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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References
8- www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4007nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/101519nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1039644nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20171023.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3263nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201712-04nvd
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