Improper Initialization Affecting curl package, versions <7.52.1-r0
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
1.24% (86th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE316-CURL-2841895
- published 23 Apr 2018
- disclosed 23 Apr 2018
Introduced: 23 Apr 2018
CVE-2016-9594 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.16
curl
to version 7.52.1-r0 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream curl
package and not the curl
package as distributed by Alpine
.
See How to fix?
for Alpine:3.16
relevant fixed versions and status.
curl before version 7.52.1 is vulnerable to an uninitialized random in libcurl's internal function that returns a good 32bit random value. Having a weak or virtually non-existent random value makes the operations that use it vulnerable.
References
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161223.html
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-04
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9594
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9594
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95094
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037528