A vulnerability has been identified in cURL/libcurl, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to a buffer overflow error in "lib/url.c" when processing an overly long URL that contains neither a protocol prefix (e.g. "http://") nor a slash character, or when handling a specially crafted URL containing a question mark ("?"), which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands [...]
Affected Products
cURL/libcurl versions 7.11.2 through 7.15.0
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Stefan Esser
ChangeLog
2005-12-07 : Initial release
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