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CVE-2016-5421

high

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in libcurl before 7.50.1 allows attackers to control which connection is used or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

References

https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-18

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-12-01.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3048-1

http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2016&m=slackware-security.563059

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036536

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92306

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3638

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00094.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00011.html

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/K3GQH4V3XAQ5Z53AMQRDEC3C3UHTW7QR/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GLPXQQKURBQFM4XM6645VRPTOE2AWG33/

https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20160803C.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-08-10

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.02487