CVE-2016-8622

State
Published
Severity
3.7 Low
Published
Jul 31, 2018
Updated
Apr 15, 2026
Reserved
Oct 12, 2016

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Description

The URL percent-encoding decode function in libcurl before 7.51.0 is called `curl_easy_unescape`. Internally, even if this function would be made to allocate a unscape destination buffer larger than 2GB, it would return that new length in a signed 32 bit integer variable, thus the length would get either just truncated or both truncated and turned negative. That could then lead to libcurl writing outside of its heap based buffer.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.03.7 LowCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:Nredhat

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
curlThe Curl Project
  • 7.51.0Affected

References

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