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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-8619: Security patch for curl (ALAS-2016-766)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-8619: Security patch for curl (ALAS-2016-766)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/02/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/11/2016
Modified
10/14/2022

Description

The function `read_data()` in security.c in curl before version 7.51.0 is vulnerable to memory double free.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-curl

References

  • ALAS-2016-766
  • CVE-2016-8619
  • USN-3123-1
  • DLA-711-1
  • DSA-3705

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