CVE-2016-9586
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.9 Medium
- Published
- Apr 23, 2018
- Updated
- Apr 15, 2026
- Reserved
- Nov 23, 2016
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 5.9 Medium | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | redhat |
Weaknesses
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
curlredhat |
|
References
- RHSA-2018:3558vendor-advisory
- [debian-lts-announce] 20181106 [SECURITY] [DLA 1568-1] curl security updatemailing-list
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161221A.html
- https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/curl-7_51_0-162-g3ab3c16
- 1037515vdb-entry
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
- 95019vdb-entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9586
- GLSA-201701-47vendor-advisory
- [bookkeeper-issues] 20210628 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2746: Security Vulnerabilities in CentOS 7 image, Upgrade image to CentOS 8mailing-list
- [bookkeeper-issues] 20210629 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2746: Security Vulnerabilities in CentOS 7 image, Upgrade image to CentOS 8mailing-list
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