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SMTP end-of-response out-of-bounds read

Type: advisorySources: OSV

libcurl contains a heap out-of-bounds read in the code handling the end-of-response for SMTP. If the buffer passed to `smtp_endofresp()` is not null-terminated and contains no character ending the parsed number, and `len` is set to 5, then the `strtol()` call reads beyond the allocated buffer. The read content is not returned to the caller.

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CVEs
CVE-2019-3823
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1 Nov 2026, 09:37 UTC · Revision 1

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SMTP end-of-response out-of-bounds read

core-osv · Original source

Published 6 Feb 2019, 08:00 UTC

libcurl contains a heap out-of-bounds read in the code handling the end-of-response for SMTP. If the buffer passed to `smtp_endofresp()` is not null-terminated and contains no character ending the parsed number, and `len` is set to 5, then the `strtol()` call reads beyond the allocated buffer. The read content is not returned to the caller.

osv:CURL-CVE-2019-3823
Complete source record
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