vulnerability

Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-8622: Vulnerability in libcurl

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 29, 2017
Added
May 29, 2017
Modified
Feb 1, 2022

Description

The URL percent-encoding decode function in libcurl before 7.51.0 is called `curl_easy_unescape`. Internally, even if this function would be made to allocate a unscape destination buffer larger than 2GB, it would return that new length in a signed 32 bit integer variable, thus the length would get either just truncated or both truncated and turned negative. That could then lead to libcurl writing outside of its heap based buffer.

Solution

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