CVE-2016-7167

Public on 2016-09-27
Modified on 2016-09-27
Description
Multiple integer overflow flaws leading to heap-based buffer overflows were found in the way curl handled escaping and unescaping of data. An attacker could potentially use these flaws to crash an application using libcurl by sending a specially crafted input to the affected libcurl functions.
Severity
Low severity
Low
CVSS v3 Base Score
2.9
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 curl 2016-09-27 ALAS-2016-742 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 2.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD CVSSv2 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H