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Debian: CVE-2016-7167: curl -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2016-7167: curl -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/17/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/31/2017
Modified
03/02/2020

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)

  • debian-upgrade-curl

References

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