CVE-2016-7167
curl - security update
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 2.3%
Description
Multiple integer overflows in the (1) curl_escape, (2) curl_easy_escape, (3) curl_unescape, and (4) curl_easy_unescape functions in libcurl before 7.50.3 allow attackers to have unspecified impact via a string of length 0xffffffff, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
How to fix CVE-2016-7167
To remediate CVE-2016-7167, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/curl—upgrade to 7.50.3-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 7.51.0-1 or later
- —upgrade to 7.26.0-1+wheezy16 or later
Is CVE-2016-7167 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 2.3%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- from 0, < 7.50.3-r0
- from 0, < 7.51.0-1
- from 0, < 7.26.0-1+wheezy16
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |