CVE Catalog

CVE-2024-7264

MediumCVSS 6.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Very high risk
17.30%

97th percentile - higher than 97% of all known CVEs

Summary

libcurl's ASN1 parser code has the `GTime2str()` function, used for parsing an ASN.1 Generalized Time field. If given an syntactically incorrect field, the parser might end up using -1 for the length of the *time fraction*, leading to a `strlen()` getting performed on a pointer to a heap buffer area that is not (purposely) null terminated. This flaw most likely leads to a crash, but can also lead to heap contents getting returned to the application when CURLINFO_CERTINFO is used.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can remotely cause an application crash or leak heap memory contents, potentially leading to sensitive information disclosure.

Recommendation

Update libcurl to a version containing the fix. If not possible, avoid using CURLINFO_CERTINFO with untrusted certificates.

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Original NVD description (English source)

libcurl's ASN1 parser code has the `GTime2str()` function, used for parsing an ASN.1 Generalized Time field. If given an syntactically incorrect field, the parser might end up using -1 for the length of the *time fraction*, leading to a `strlen()` getting performed on a pointer to a heap buffer area that is not (purposely) null terminated. This flaw most likely leads to a crash, but can also lead to heap contents getting returned to the application when [CURLINFO_CERTINFO](https://curl.se/libcurl/c/CURLINFO_CERTINFO.html) is used.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS