GSD-2016-8617

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:21
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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`.
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CVE-2016-8617
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      "https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2016-8617",
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