CVE-2016-8622
8Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 3.7epss 4.7%
exploitation probability
4.7%top 9% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
The URL percent-encoding decode function in libcurl before 7.51.0 is called `curl_easy_unescape`. Internally, even if this function would be made to allocate a unscape destination buffer larger than 2GB, it would return that new length in a signed 32 bit integer variable, thus the length would get either just truncated or both truncated and turned negative. That could then lead to libcurl writing outside of its heap based buffer.
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/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-2016-8622https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102H.htmlhttps://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/94105http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037192