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curl: escape and unescape integer overflows

🗓️ 01 Aug 2017 14:02:02Reported by RedHatType 
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Curl escape and unescape overflows cause heap buffer overflows; crafted input can crash libcurl.

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IBM Security Bulletins		IBM Security Network Protection / IBM QRadar Network Security / XGS Technote Index
31 Jan 202100:10
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IBM Security Bulletins		Security Bulletin: IBM QRadar Network Security is affected by a vulnerability in Curl (CVE-2016-7167)
16 Jun 201822:02
–ibm
IBM Security Bulletins		Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in curl affects PowerKVM
18 Jun 201801:37
–ibm
IBM Security Bulletins		Security Bulletin: IBM Dynamic System Analysis (DSA) Preboot is affected by vulnerabilities in curl
31 Jan 201902:25
–ibm
IBM Security Bulletins		Security Bulletin: IBM Security Access Manager Appliance is affected by a cURL vulnerability (CVE-2016-7167)
16 Jun 201822:05
–ibm
ALT Linux		Security fix for the ALT Linux 8 package curl version 7.50.3-alt1
14 Sep 201600:00
–altlinux
Tenable Nessus		cURL/libcurl 7.x < 7.50.3 RCE
9 Dec 201600:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		Amazon Linux AMI : curl (ALAS-2016-742)
28 Sep 201600:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		CentOS 7 : curl (CESA-2017:2016)
25 Aug 201700:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		Debian DLA-1568-1 : curl security update
7 Nov 201800:00
–nessus
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux7ppc64curl0:7.29.0-42.el7curl-0:7.29.0-42.el7.ppc64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux7ppc64lecurl0:7.29.0-42.el7curl-0:7.29.0-42.el7.ppc64le.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux7s390xcurl0:7.29.0-42.el7curl-0:7.29.0-42.el7.s390x.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux7x86_64curl0:7.29.0-42.el7curl-0:7.29.0-42.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux7aarch64curl-debuginfo0:7.29.0-42.el7curl-debuginfo-0:7.29.0-42.el7.aarch64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux7i686curl-debuginfo0:7.29.0-42.el7curl-debuginfo-0:7.29.0-42.el7.i686.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux7ppccurl-debuginfo0:7.29.0-42.el7curl-debuginfo-0:7.29.0-42.el7.ppc.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux7ppc64curl-debuginfo0:7.29.0-42.el7curl-debuginfo-0:7.29.0-42.el7.ppc64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux7ppc64lecurl-debuginfo0:7.29.0-42.el7curl-debuginfo-0:7.29.0-42.el7.ppc64le.rpm
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21 Nov 2025 18:01Current
7.5High risk
Vulners AI Score7.5
CVSS 27.5
CVSS 39.8
EPSS0.02257
CWE-190
curl overflowinteger overflowheap overflowbuffer overflowlibcurl crashcrafted inputescape unescape
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