CVE-2016-8620

NameCVE-2016-8620
DescriptionThe '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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-3705-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
curl (PTS)bullseye7.74.0-1.3+deb11u13fixed
bullseye (security)7.74.0-1.3+deb11u11fixed
bookworm7.88.1-10+deb12u7fixed
bookworm (security)7.88.1-10+deb12u5fixed
trixie8.10.1-1fixed
sid8.10.1-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
curlsourcewheezy(not affected)
curlsourcejessie7.38.0-4+deb8u5DSA-3705-1
curlsource(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

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