vulnerability

F5 Networks: K44503763 (CVE-2016-8617): libcurl vulnerability CVE-2016-8617

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Nov 2, 2016
Added
Apr 12, 2017
Modified
Jan 28, 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

f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest
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