CVE-2016-8619

critical

Description

The function `read_data()` in security.c in curl before version 7.51.0 is vulnerable to memory double free.

References

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94100

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037192

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8619

https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8619.patch

https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102E.html

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

https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2018-08-01

Updated: 2019-10-09

Type: CWE-415

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Impact Score: 6.4

Exploitability Score: 10

Severity: HIGH

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

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

Impact Score: 5.9

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: CRITICAL