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CVE-2016-8622 (GCVE-0-2016-8622)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-07-31 21:00 – Updated: 2026-04-15 20:54
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Summary
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.
Severity
3.7 (Low)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-04-15 20:54 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
The Curl Project curl Affected: 7.51.0
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Date Public
2016-11-02 00:00
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