vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-8618: Security patch for curl (ALAS-2016-766)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Nov 2, 2016 | Nov 11, 2016 | Oct 14, 2022 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 2, 2016
Added
Nov 11, 2016
Modified
Oct 14, 2022
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
amazon-linux-upgrade-curl
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