Description
Multiple off-by-one errors in the cURL library (libcurl) 7.11.2 through 7.15.0 allow local users to trigger a buffer overflow and cause a denial of service or bypass PHP security restrictions via certain URLs that (1) are malformed in a way that prevents a terminating null byte from being added to either a hostname or path buffer, or (2) contain a "?" separator in the hostname portion, which causes a "/" to be prepended to the resulting string.
Published: 2005-12-08
Score: 4.6 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-919-1 New curl packages fix potential security problem
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-919-2 New curl packages fix potential security problem
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2005-4072 Multiple off-by-one errors in the cURL library (libcurl) 7.11.2 through 7.15.0 allow local users to trigger a buffer overflow and cause a denial of service or bypass PHP security restrictions via certain URLs that (1) are malformed in a way that prevents a terminating null byte from being added to either a hostname or path buffer, or (2) contain a "?" separator in the hostname portion, which causes a "/" to be prepended to the resulting string.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-228-1 curl library vulnerability
References
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ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2006.16/SCOSA-2006.16.txt cve-icon cve-icon
http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20051207.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562 cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/May/msg00003.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=59032 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/17907 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/17960 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/17961 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/17965 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/17977 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/18105 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/18188 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/18336 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/19261 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/19433 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/19457 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/20077 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-919 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200512-09.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-25.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_242005.109.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:224 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-December/msg00020.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-875.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/418849/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15756 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17951 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0072/ cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-132A.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2791 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0960 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1779 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-4077 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10855 cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/228-1/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-4077 cve-icon
History

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00144}

epss

{'score': 0.00266}


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Daniel Stenberg Curl
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T23:31:48.962Z

Reserved: 2005-12-08T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2005-4077

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-12-08T01:03:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2005-4077

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2005-12-07T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2005-4077 - Bugzilla

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