CVE-2016-8622

critical

Description

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.

References

https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47

https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102H.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8622

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037192

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94105

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-07-31

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical