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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-9586: Vulnerability in libcurl

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-9586: Vulnerability in libcurl

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/29/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/29/2017
Modified
02/01/2022

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)

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

References

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