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    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

    Vendor
    Haxx
    Product
    Libcurl
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Jboss Core Services
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Rhel Software Collections

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