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.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2018-04-23T18:00:00.000Z
Updated: 2026-04-15T21:03:48.245Z
Reserved: 2016-11-23T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2016-9586
Updated: 2024-08-06T02:59:02.246Z
Status : Modified
Published: 2018-04-23T18:29:00.537
Modified: 2024-11-21T03:01:26.577
Link: CVE-2016-9586