CVE-2016-9586 | Mend Vulnerability Database

Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2016-9586

CVE-2016-9586

Published:April 23, 2018

Updated:May 17, 2026

curl before version 7.52.0 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when doing a large floating point output in libcurl's implementation of the printf() functions. If there are any application that accepts a format string from the outside without necessary input filtering, it could allow remote attacks.

Related Resources (14)

https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/curl-7_51_0-162-g3ab3c16

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-9586

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9586

https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161221A.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037515

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

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

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

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00005.html

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9586