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CVE-2016-8620

critical

Description

The 'globbing' feature in curl before version 7.51.0 has a flaw that leads to integer overflow and out-of-bounds read via user controlled input.

References

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

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8620

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

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94102

https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102F.html

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-08-01

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

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

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

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00597