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CVE-2016-7167 (GCVE-0-2016-7167)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-10-07 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:50
VLAI
Summary
Multiple integer overflows in the (1) curl_escape, (2) curl_easy_escape, (3) curl_unescape, and (4) curl_easy_unescape functions in libcurl before 7.50.3 allow attackers to have unspecified impact via a string of length 0xffffffff, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=sl… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWARE
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92975 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036813 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Date Public
2016-09-14 00:00
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