CVE-2016-7167
curl: escape and unescape integer overflows
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · September 14, 2016
Updated · September 21, 2026
Description
Multiple integer overflow flaws leading to heap-based buffer overflows were found in the way curl handled escaping and unescaping of data. An attacker could potentially use these flaws to crash an application using libcurl by sending a specially crafted input to the affected libcurl functions.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 2.9CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS 2.0 · 4.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CWE-190 · Integer Overflow or Wraparound