CVE-2018-0500

Curl_smtp_escape_eob in lib/smtp.c in curl 7.54.1 to and including curl 7.60.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow that might be exploitable by an attacker who can control the data that curl transmits over SMTP with certain settings (i.e., use of a nonstandard --limit-rate argument or CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE value).

• CWE-787

• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041280Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486Third Party Advisory
• https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2018-70a2.htmlExploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/ba1dbd78e5f1ed67c1b8d37ac89d90e5e330b628Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201807-04Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3710-1/Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041280Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486Third Party Advisory
• https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2018-70a2.htmlExploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/ba1dbd78e5f1ed67c1b8d37ac89d90e5e330b628Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201807-04Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3710-1/Third Party Advisory

Published

Jul 11, 2018

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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