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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2016-9586: curl security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2016-9586: curl security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/23/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/03/2018
Modified
11/15/2018

Description

curl before version 7.52.0 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when doing a large floating point output in libcurl's implementation of the printf() functions. If there are any application that accepts a format string from the outside without necessary input filtering, it could allow remote attacks.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-curl
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-libcurl
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-libcurl-devel

References

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