gsd-2016-9586
Vulnerability from gsd
Modified
2023-12-13 01:21
Details
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.
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CVE-2016-9586


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      "https://advisories.mageia.org/CVE-2016-9586.html",
      "https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2016-9586",
      "https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2016-9586.html"
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      "lastModifiedDate": "2021-06-29T15:15Z",
      "publishedDate": "2018-04-23T18:29Z"
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}


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