Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Nov 29, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-8817
CVE-2017-8817
Description
The FTP wildcard function in curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a string that ends with an '[' character.
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Affected products
14- osv-coords10 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/curl&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/curl&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/curl&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/curl&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/curl&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/curl&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20Raspberry%20Pi%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/curl&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/curl&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/curl&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/curl&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP3
< 7.79.1-1.1+ 9 more
- (no CPE)range: < 7.79.1-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 7.37.0-37.11.3
- (no CPE)range: < 7.37.0-37.11.3
- (no CPE)range: < 7.37.0-37.11.3
- (no CPE)range: < 7.37.0-37.11.3
- (no CPE)range: < 7.37.0-37.11.3
- (no CPE)range: < 7.37.0-37.11.3
- (no CPE)range: < 7.37.0-37.11.3
- (no CPE)range: < 7.37.0-37.11.3
- (no CPE)range: < 7.37.0-37.11.3
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
8- security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.phpnvdThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/102057nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1039897nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2017-ae72.htmlnvdMitigationVendor Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4051nvdThird Party Advisory
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558nvd
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00040.htmlnvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201712-04nvd
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