CVE-2016-9586

Public on 2017-03-22
Modified on 2017-03-22
Description
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.
Severity
Low severity
Low
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.9
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 curl 2017-03-22 ALAS-2017-806 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 2.6 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H