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CVE-2016-9586

high

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

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

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

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

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

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

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-04-23

Updated: 2024-11-21

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: 0.00687