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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-8621: Vulnerability in libcurl

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-8621: Vulnerability in libcurl

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
05/29/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/29/2017
Modified
02/01/2022

Description

The `curl_getdate` function in curl before version 7.51.0 is vulnerable to an out of bounds read if it receives an input with one digit short.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-curl-7-45-0-0-175-3-18-0-1-0

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