Security Advisory

CVE-2016-9586

5.9
MEDIUM

Vulnerability Description

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.
Published Date April 23, 2018
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory