Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting curl package, versions <7.50.3-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.01% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE321-CURL-8482948
  • published6 Dec 2024
  • disclosed7 Oct 2016

Introduced: 7 Oct 2016

CVE-2016-7167  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.21 curl to version 7.50.3-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:3.21 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

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