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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2016-8617: curl security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2016-8617: curl security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/31/2018
Created
08/29/2019
Added
08/28/2019
Modified
08/28/2019

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)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp1-upgrade-curl
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp1-upgrade-libcurl
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp1-upgrade-libcurl-devel

References

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