CVE-2016-9586 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

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://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161221A.html https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/curl-7_51_0-162-g3ab3c16 https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/curl-7_51_0-162-g3ab3c16 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00005.html [debian-lts-announce] 20181106 [SECURITY] [DLA 1568-1] curl security update https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47 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. cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl::::::::

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.1