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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-5436: Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 28, 2019
Added
Jun 7, 2019
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A heap buffer overflow in the TFTP receiving code allows for DoS or arbitrary code execution in libcurl versions 7.19.4 through 7.64.1.

Solutions

alpine-linux-upgrade-curlalpine-linux-upgrade-gnurl
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