CVE-2016-9586
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5.9 · CWE-122
5.9CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityHigh
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)5%
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/curl-7_51_0-162-g3ab3c16 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/curl-7_51_0-162-g3ab3c16Patch
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161221A.htmlAdvisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95019Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037515Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9586Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E