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GHSA-9xx8-h3pj-h4h9
GHSA-9xx8-h3pj-h4h9
PUBLISHED
CVSS 8.100000381469727 HIGH
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 13, 2022
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.
Risk scores
CVSS 3.0
8.100000381469727
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Timeline
- May 13, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory
- Apr 29, 2026 Distribution Patch
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The same record, from the CLI:
vulnetix vdb vuln GHSA-9xx8-h3pj-h4h9
vulnetix vdb fixes GHSA-9xx8-h3pj-h4h9
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curl -s -H "Authorization: ApiKey ${VULNETIX_ORG_ID}:${VULNETIX_API_KEY}" \
"https://api.vdb.vulnetix.com/v2/vuln/GHSA-9xx8-h3pj-h4h9/fixes/registry"
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References
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html url
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95019 url
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9586 advisory
- https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/curl-7_51_0-162-g3ab3c16 url
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E url
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E url
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00005.html url
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47 url
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558 url
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9586 url
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161221A.html url
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037515 url