cve-2016-8617
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-07-31 22:00
Modified
2024-08-06 02:27
Severity
3.3 (Low) - cvssV3_0 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Summary
The base64 encode function in curl before version 7.51.0 is prone to a buffer being under allocated in 32bit systems if it receives at least 1Gb as input via `CURLOPT_USERNAME`.
References
SourceURLTags
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94097Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037192Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8617Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8617.patchPatch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102C.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
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The Curl Projectcurl
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