CVE-2016-9586
Published: 21 December 2016
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.
Priority
CVSS 3 base score: 8.1
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
|
curl Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
artful |
Not vulnerable
(7.52.1-5ubuntu1)
|
| precise |
Released
(7.22.0-3ubuntu4.18)
|
|
| trusty |
Released
(7.35.0-1ubuntu2.11)
|
|
| upstream |
Released
(7.52.0)
|
|
| xenial |
Released
(7.47.0-1ubuntu2.3)
|
|
| yakkety |
Ignored
(reached end-of-life)
|
|
| zesty |
Not vulnerable
(7.52.1-4ubuntu1.1)
|
|
|
Patches: upstream: https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/3ab3c16db6a5674f53cf23d56512a405fde0b2c9 upstream: https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-9586.patch |
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