CVE-2017-1000099

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Published 2017-10-05 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
6.5

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-1000099

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: nvd@nist.gov — https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20170809C.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-14

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://curl.haxx.se/0809C.patch

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201708-16

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201710-3

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201710-4

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201710-5

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201710-6

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201710-7

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed7.56.0-1
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiansidfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
haxxlibcurl7.54.1

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.