Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting curl package, versions [,7.50.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.26% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CURL-2317571
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed7 Oct 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Oct 2016

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

How to fix?

Upgrade curl to version 7.50.3 or higher.

Overview

curl is a command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound. 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.

CVSS Scores

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