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CVE-2016-9586

Published: Apr 23, 2018

Modified: Apr 15, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.0

5.9

MEDIUM

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
redhat	curl	affected `curl 7.52.0`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.0 Details

CVSS v3.0 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

References

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_REDHAT

[debian-lts-announce] 20181106 [SECURITY] [DLA 1568-1] curl security update

mailing-list

x_refsource_MLIST

https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161221A.html

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/curl-7_51_0-162-g3ab3c16

x_refsource_CONFIRM

vdb-entry

x_refsource_SECTRACK

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html

x_refsource_CONFIRM

vdb-entry

x_refsource_BID

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9586

x_refsource_MISC

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_GENTOO

[bookkeeper-issues] 20210628 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2746: Security Vulnerabilities in CentOS 7 image, Upgrade image to CentOS 8

mailing-list

x_refsource_MLIST

[bookkeeper-issues] 20210629 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2746: Security Vulnerabilities in CentOS 7 image, Upgrade image to CentOS 8

mailing-list

x_refsource_MLIST

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