CVE-2016-8625

Publication date 1 August 2018

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

curl before version 7.51.0 uses outdated IDNA 2003 standard to handle International Domain Names and this may lead users to potentially and unknowingly issue network transfer requests to the wrong host.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
curl	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Not affected
	19.04 disco	Not affected
	18.10 cosmic	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored

Notes

mdeslaur

upstream patch switched from libidn to libidn2 and may be causing issues, see: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2016-11/0033.html http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/333 Fixing this is intrusive and is likely to cause regressions in stable releases. As such, we will not be fixing this issue in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and earlier.

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
curl	Upstream: 9c91ec7

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N