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CURL-CVE-2018-16840

Published Oct 31, 2018·Last modified Apr 25, 2026
Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

libcurl contains a heap use after free flaw in 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 clearing the pointer) and might then subsequently erroneously write to a struct field within that already freed struct.

Risk Scores
Base Score
0.0

Measures severity based on intrinsic characteristics of the vulnerability, independent of environment.

Threat Intelligence
0.0

No exploitation activity has been observed at this time. Continue routine monitoring.

EPSS
3.40%

The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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