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F5: CVE-2016-8618: K10196624: libcurl vulnerability CVE-2016-8618

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 21, 2017
Added
Jun 17, 2026
Modified
Jun 17, 2026

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-bigip-upgrade-latest
Title
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