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F5 Networks: K10196624 (CVE-2016-8618): libcurl vulnerability CVE-2016-8618

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 2, 2016
Added
Apr 23, 2017
Modified
Sep 16, 2019

Description

The libcurl API function called `curl_maprintf()` before version 7.51.0 can be tricked into doing a double-free due to an unsafe `size_t` multiplication, on systems using 32 bit `size_t` variables.

Solution

f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest
Title
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