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CentOS Linux: CVE-2016-7167: Moderate: curl security, bug fix, and enhancement update (CESA-2017:2016)

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CentOS Linux: CVE-2016-7167: Moderate: curl security, bug fix, and enhancement update (CESA-2017:2016)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/07/2016
Created
08/29/2019
Added
08/28/2019
Modified
05/25/2023

Description

Multiple integer overflows in the (1) curl_escape, (2) curl_easy_escape, (3) curl_unescape, and (4) curl_easy_unescape functions in libcurl before 7.50.3 allow attackers to have unspecified impact via a string of length 0xffffffff, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-curl
  • centos-upgrade-curl-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-libcurl
  • centos-upgrade-libcurl-devel

References

  • 92975
  • CVE-2016-7167
  • RHSA-2017:2016
  • RHSA-2018:2486
  • RHSA-2018:3558

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