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CVE-2016-9586

curl: printf floating point buffer overflow

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

5.9

CVSS 3.0

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Published · December 21, 2016

Updated · August 5, 2026

Description

curl before version 7.52.0 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when doing a large floating point output in libcurl's implementation of the printf() functions. If there are any application that accepts a format string from the outside without necessary input filtering, it could allow remote attacks.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5.9
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS 2.0 · 2.6
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow