| Name | CVE-2016-8620 |
| Description | The 'globbing' feature in curl before version 7.51.0 has a flaw that leads to integer overflow and out-of-bounds read via user controlled input. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-3705-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| curl (PTS) | buster | 7.64.0-4+deb10u2 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 7.64.0-4+deb10u9 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 7.74.0-1.3+deb11u11 | fixed |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 7.88.1-10+deb12u5 | fixed |
| trixie | 8.5.0-2 | fixed |
| sid | 8.7.1-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| curl | source | wheezy | (not affected) | | | |
| curl | source | jessie | 7.38.0-4+deb8u5 | | DSA-3705-1 | |
| curl | source | (unstable) | 7.51.0-1 | | | |
Notes
[wheezy] - curl <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced in 7.34.0)
https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/fbb5f1aa0326d485d5a7ac643b48481897ca667f
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102F.html
https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8620.patch