CVE-2016-8622
The URL percent-encoding decode function in libcurl before 7.51.0 is called `curl_easy_unescape`. Internally, even if this function would be made to allocate a unscape destination buffer larger than 2GB, it would return that new length in a signed 32 bit integer variable, thus the length would get either just truncated or both truncated and turned negative. That could then lead to libcurl writing outside of its heap based buffer.
Published:Nov 2, 2016
Last Modified:Apr 15, 2026
EPS:Jul 31, 2018
EPSS Score:0.01634
CVSS Score:3.7
Affected Products
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Product
Action
Vendor
Haxx
Product
Libcurl
Haxx
Libcurl
Vendor
Redhat
Product
Jboss Core Services
Redhat
Jboss Core Services
Vendor
Redhat
Product
Rhel Software Collections
Redhat
Rhel Software Collections
Exploits
No exploit reference
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Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
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Attack Vector
Network
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