CVE-2016-8617
8Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 3.3epss 0.6%
exploitation probability
0.6%top 55% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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`.
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Affected products
The Curl Project · curlReferences
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8617https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8617.patchhttps://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102C.htmlhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3Ehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3Ehttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94097http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037192