CVE-2016-9586: Buffer Overflow
First published: Wed Dec 21 2016(Updated: )
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.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| redhat/curl | <7.52.0 | 7.52.0 |
| Curl | <7.52.0 |
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Reference Links
- 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://github.com/curl/curl/commit/curl-7_51_0-162-g3ab3c16
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00005.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/719
- https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-9586.patch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=1406716
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=1406717
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=1406718
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1406712
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
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