Improper Input Validation Affecting curl package, versions <7.51.0-r0
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.57% (79th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE316-CURL-2841931
- published 27 Jun 2018
- disclosed 1 Aug 2018
Introduced: 27 Jun 2018
CVE-2016-8625 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.16
curl
to version 7.51.0-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curl before version 7.51.0 uses outdated IDNA 2003 standard to handle International Domain Names and this may lead users to potentially and unknowingly issue network transfer requests to the wrong host.
References
- https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8625.patch
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102K.html
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8625
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8625
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8625
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94107
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037192
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-8625
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E