| Name | CVE-2016-8618 |
| Description | The libcurl API function called `curl_maprintf()` before version 7.51.0 can be tricked into doing a double-free due to an unsafe `size_t` multiplication, on systems using 32 bit `size_t` variables. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-711-1, DSA-3705-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| curl (PTS) | bullseye | 7.74.0-1.3+deb11u13 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 7.74.0-1.3+deb11u15 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 7.88.1-10+deb12u14 | fixed | |
| bookworm (security) | 7.88.1-10+deb12u5 | fixed | |
| trixie | 8.14.1-2 | fixed | |
| forky | 8.17.0~rc2-1 | fixed | |
| sid | 8.17.0~rc3-1 | 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 | 7.26.0-1+wheezy17 | DLA-711-1 | ||
| curl | source | jessie | 7.38.0-4+deb8u5 | DSA-3705-1 | ||
| curl | source | (unstable) | 7.51.0-1 |
https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/8732ec40db652c53fa58cd13e2acb8eab6e40874
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102D.html
https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8618.patch