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SUSE-SU-2018:3607-1

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2018-11-02 16:09 - Updated: 2018-11-02 16:09
Summary
Security update for curl
Severity
Moderate
Notes
Title of the patch: Security update for curl
Description of the patch: This update for curl fixes the following issues: - CVE-2018-16842: A Out-of-bounds Read in tool_msgs.c was fixed which could lead to crashes (bsc#1113660)
Patchnames: slestso13-curl-13854
Terms of use: CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
CVE-2018-16842
4.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Unresolved product id: SUSE Studio Onsite 1.3:libcurl-devel-7.19.7-1.20.53.19.1.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix
Threats
Impact moderate
References
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