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CVE-2016-8620

MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.5 · Buffer overflow
6.5CVSS MEDIUM

Summary

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.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactLow
Integrity impactLow
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)5%

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html ↗