vulnerability
Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-9586: Heap-based Buffer Overflow
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Apr 23, 2018 | Apr 23, 2018 | Aug 8, 2025 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 23, 2018
Added
Apr 23, 2018
Modified
Aug 8, 2025
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
alpine-linux-upgrade-curl
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