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CVE-2017-1000099

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5 EPSS 3.08%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-10-05 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.5. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.

CVE
CVE-2017-1000099
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.5
EPSS
3.08%

Original NVD 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.

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