UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9586

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9586

    Published: 21 Dec 2016Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-9586

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9586, https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161221A.html, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3441-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3441-2, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9586

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: curl

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -7.35.0-1ubuntu2.11

    Affected versions

    7.32.0-1ubuntu1

    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
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