CVE-2016-8618 MEDIUM

CVE-2016-8618

Vendor The Curl Project

Product curl

Weakness CWE-416

Published July 31, 2018

Last update August 6, 2024

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CVSS base score

5.3/10

Attack vector Network

Attack complexity Low

Privileges required None

User interaction None

Confidentiality None

Integrity Low

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

July 31, 2018 CVE published

August 6, 2024 Record updated

External resources

03References

NVD — National Vulnerability Database https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8618 CWE — Common Weakness Enumeration https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/416.html

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