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CVE-2016-8622

LOW · CVSS 3.7 EPSS 4.67%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2018-07-31 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a low severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 3.7. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.

CVE
CVE-2016-8622
Severity
LOW
CVSS
3.7
EPSS
4.67%

Original NVD Description

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.

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