CVE-2016-9594

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    CVE-2016-9594

    Published: 23 Apr 2018Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: curl before version 7.52.1 is vulnerable to an uninitialized random in libcurl's internal function that returns a good 32bit random value. Having a weak or virtually non-existent random value makes the operations that use it vulnerable.

    References: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95094, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037528, https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161223.html, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47, https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-04, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9594

    Affected packages

    Package

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -44b9b4d4f56d6f6de92c89636994c03984e9cd01

    Affected versions

    curl-7_52_0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High