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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-8617: cURL: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-8617: cURL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/19/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
11/15/2018

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(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-misc-curl

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