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CVE-2017-1000099

Published: 2017-10-05T01:29Z
Last Modified: 2024-11-21T03:04Z
Source: MITRE CVE List
License: MITRE-CVE-TOS
When asking to get a file from a file:// URL, libcurl provides a feature that outputs meta-data about the file using HTTP-like headers. The code doing this would send the wrong buffer to the user (stdout or the application's provide callback), which could lead to other private data from the heap to get inadvertently displayed. The wrong buffer was an uninitialized memory area allocated on the heap and if it turned out to not contain any zero byte, it would continue and display the data following that buffer in memory. > MITRE Terms of Use apply – see LICENSE‑MITRE.txt