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CVE-2021-36159

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.1 Published: 2021-08-03 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

libfetch before 2021-07-26, as used in apk-tools, xbps, and other products, mishandles numeric strings for the FTP and HTTP protocols. The FTP passive mode implementation allows an out-of-bounds read because strtol is used to parse the relevant numbers into address bytes. It does not check if the line ends prematurely. If it does, the for-loop condition checks for the '\0' terminator one byte too late.

Affected Platforms

Freebsd Libfetch

Weakness Type

CWE-125

References