CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-8618
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-07-31
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-415, CWE-416
Description
The libcurl API function called `curl_maprintf()` before version 7.51.0 can be tricked into doing a double-free due to an unsafe `size_t` multiplication, on systems using 32 bit `size_t` variables.
Affected configurations
• haxx curl (< 7.51.0)
Related
References
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94098 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-2016-8618 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102D.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- 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/94098 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-2016-8618 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102D.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21 Third Party Advisory