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CVE-2016-8620

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Date: August 1, 2018

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

9.8

Related Resources (12)

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8620

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94102

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47

Url: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102F.html

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-8620

Url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8620

Url: https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8620

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037192

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-8620

Severity Score

9.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Integer Overflow or Wraparound

CWE-190

Out-of-bounds Read

CWE-125

Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

CWE-120

Heap-based Buffer Overflow

CWE-122

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version 7.51.0

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	9.8
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.5
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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