ALPINE-CVE-2016-7167

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CVE-2016-7167
Published: 07 Oct 2016, 14:59
Last modified:03 Dec 2025, 22:32

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
high
70/100
CVSS Score
9.8 CRITICAL
3.0 (osv_alpine)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

07 Oct 2016, 14:59
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Dec 2025, 22:32
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

Multiple integer overflows in the (1) curl_escape, (2) curl_easy_escape, (3) curl_unescape, and (4) curl_easy_unescape functions in libcurl before 7.50.3 allow attackers to have unspecified impact via a string of length 0xffffffff, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•CRITICAL•Score: 9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Systems

  • alpine•curl

    < 7.50.3-r0 | < 7.50.3 | < 7.50.3-r0 | < 7.50.3-r0 | < 7.50.3-r0 | < 7.50.3-r0 | < 7.50.3-r0 | < 7.50.3-r0 | < 7.50.3-r0 | < 7.50.3-r0 | < 7.49.1-r3 | < 7.50.3-r0 | < 7.50.3-r0 | < 7.50.3-r0 | < 7.50.3-r0 | < 7.49.1-r3 | < 7.50.3-r0 | < 7.50.3-r0 | < 7.50.3 | < 7.50.3 | < 7.50.3 | < 7.50.3-r1

References (1)