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OS X update for curl (CVE-2016-9586)

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OS X update for curl (CVE-2016-9586)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/28/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/28/2017
Modified
03/18/2020

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(s)

  • apple-osx-upgrade-10_12_6

References

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