ALPINE-CVE-2016-9586

Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-9586
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2016-9586.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2016-9586
Upstream
Published
2018-04-23T18:29:00Z
Modified
2026-09-22T06:30:11Z
Severity
  • 8.1 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

curl before version 7.52.0 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when doing a large floating point output in libcurl's implementation of the printf() functions. If there are any application that accepts a format string from the outside without necessary input filtering, it could allow remote attacks.

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.2 / curl

Package

Name
curl
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/curl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
7.52.1-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2016-9586.json"

Alpine:v3.3 / curl

Package

Name
curl
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/curl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
7.52.1-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2016-9586.json"