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OS X update for curl (CVE-2016-8617)

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Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Dec 16, 2016
Added
Dec 16, 2016
Modified
Aug 13, 2025

Description

The base64 encode function in curl before version 7.51.0 is prone to a buffer being under allocated in 32bit systems if it receives at least 1Gb as input via `CURLOPT_USERNAME`.

Solution

apple-osx-upgrade-10_12_2

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