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CVE-2016-9586
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.9
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-04-23T18:29:00.537 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:56:17.503

Summary

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.

Affected products

haxx — curl

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References

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