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Ubuntu: USN-3123-1 (CVE-2016-8620): curl vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3123-1 (CVE-2016-8620): curl vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/03/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/03/2016
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

The 'globbing' feature in curl before version 7.51.0 has a flaw that leads to integer overflow and out-of-bounds read via user controlled input.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libcurl3
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libcurl3-gnutls
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libcurl3-nss

References

  • USN-3123-1
  • CVE-2016-8620
  • DSA-3705

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