CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-8617
7.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-07-31
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 3.3 LOW — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
The base64 encode function in curl before version 7.51.0 is prone to a buffer being under allocated in 32bit systems if it receives at least 1Gb as input via `CURLOPT_USERNAME`.
Affected configurations
• haxx curl (< 7.51.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94097 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037192 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8617 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8617.patch Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102C.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94097 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037192 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8617 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8617.patch Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102C.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21 Third Party Advisory