CVE-2016-8620 (GCVE-0-2016-8620)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-08-01 06:00
Modified
2026-04-15 21:04
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
Summary
The 'globbing' feature in curl before version 7.51.0 has a flaw that leads to integer overflow and out-of-bounds read via user controlled input.
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The Curl Project curl Version: 7.51.0
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