Description

curl before version 7.52.0 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when doing a large floating point output in libcurl's implementation of the printf() functions. If there are any application that accepts a format string from the outside without necessary input filtering, it could allow remote attacks.

References

https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/curl-7_51_0-162-g3ab3c16

https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161221A.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9586

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

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037515

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95019

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

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00005.html

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

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/[email protected]%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/[email protected]%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3