CVE-2018-1000300: curl: FTP shutdown response heap-based buffer overflow can potentially lead to RCE

Severity: Critical

CVSS Score: 9.8

curl version curl 7.54.1 to and including curl 7.59.0 contains a CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in denial of service and more that can result in curl might overflow a heap based memory buffer when closing down an FTP connection with very long server command replies.. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in curl < 7.54.1 and curl >= 7.60.0.