Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-9586): curl vulnerabilities
7
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
12/21/2016
07/25/2018
10/10/2017
11/27/2024
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.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-curl
- ubuntu-upgrade-libcurl3
- ubuntu-upgrade-libcurl3-gnutls
- ubuntu-upgrade-libcurl3-nss
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