{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "secalert@redhat.com", "ID": "CVE-2018-16840", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "curl", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "from 7.59.0 to 7.61.1" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "The Curl Project" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "A heap use-after-free flaw was found in curl versions from 7.59.0 through 7.61.1 in the code related to closing an easy handle. When closing and cleaning up an 'easy' handle in the `Curl_close()` function, the library code first frees a struct (without nulling the pointer) and might then subsequently erroneously write to a struct field within that already freed struct." } ] }, "impact": { "cvss": [ [ { "vectorString": "4.3/CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N", "version": "3.0" } ] ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "CWE-416" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "GLSA-201903-03", "refsource": "GENTOO", "url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-03" }, { "name": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16840", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16840" }, { "name": "https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/81d135d67155c5295b1033679c606165d4e28f3f", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/81d135d67155c5295b1033679c606165d4e28f3f" }, { "name": "1042013", "refsource": "SECTRACK", "url": "http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042013" }, { "name": "https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2018-16840.html", "refsource": "MISC", "url": "https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2018-16840.html" }, { "name": "USN-3805-1", "refsource": "UBUNTU", "url": "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3805-1/" } ] } }