CVE-2016-9586
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.
- Score
- CVSS 3.0 8.1 High
- Status
- Modified - secalert@redhat.com
- Published
- 2018-04-23
- Last modified
- 2026-04-15
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119, CWE-122
Affected products
References
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95019
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037515
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9586
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161221A.html
- https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/curl-7_51_0-162-g3ab3c16
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.a…
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.a…
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00005.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47
