vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-9586: Security patch for curl (ALAS-2017-806)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | 2016-12-21 | 2017-03-23 | 2022-10-14 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
2016-12-21
Added
2017-03-23
Modified
2022-10-14
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
amazon-linux-upgrade-curl
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