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CVE-2016-8617

Date: July 31, 2018

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".

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (18)

https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102C.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8617
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94097
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8617
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-8617
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037192
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-8617
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8617
https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8617.patch
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8617
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-8617

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Out-of-bounds Write

CWE-787

Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size

CWE-131

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): HIGH
Privileges Required (PR): LOW
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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