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FreeBSD: VID-B018121B-7A4B-11E6-BF52-B499BAEBFEAF (CVE-2016-7167): cURL -- Escape and unescape integer overflows

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FreeBSD: VID-B018121B-7A4B-11E6-BF52-B499BAEBFEAF (CVE-2016-7167): cURL -- Escape and unescape integer overflows

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/14/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/14/2016
Modified
05/03/2019

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)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-curl

References

  • 92975
  • 1036813
  • RHSA-2017:2016
  • RHSA-2018:2486
  • RHSA-2018:3558
  • GLSA-201701-47
  • CVE-2016-7167
  • USN-3123-1
  • DLA-625-1
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