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HistoryApr 19, 2017 - 12:00 a.m.

K26899353 : libcurl vulnerability CVE-2016-8621

2017-04-1900:00:00
my.f5.com
14

7.8 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

72.7%

Security Advisory Description

The curl_getdate function in curl before version 7.51.0 is vulnerable to an out of bounds read if it receives an input with one digit short. (CVE-2016-8621)

Impact

Custom monitors or shell scripts using curl to download content with a malformed time stamp may be vulnerable to a privilege escalation.