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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-8618: curl Multiple issues

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-8618: curl Multiple issues

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/08/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2017
Modified
11/15/2018

Description

The libcurl API function called `curl_maprintf()` before version 7.51.0 can be tricked into doing a double-free due to an unsafe `size_t` multiplication, on systems using 32 bit `size_t` variables.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-curl

References

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