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.
References
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http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html | |
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95019 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037515 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558 | |
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9586 | Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161221A.html | Vendor Advisory |
https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/curl-7_51_0-162-g3ab3c16 | Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E | |
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E | |
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00005.html | |
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47 | Third Party Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2018-04-23T18:00:00
Updated: 2021-06-29T14:06:45
Reserved: 2016-11-23T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-9586
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2018-04-23T18:29:00.537
Modified: 2023-11-07T02:37:14.110
Link: CVE-2016-9586
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
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