Security Advisory

CVE-2016-8617

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-07-31 22:00:00
Last updated 2026-04-16 13:31:37
Assigner redhat
CVSS score 3.3
State PUBLISHED

Description

The base64 encode function in curl before version 7.51.0 is prone to a buffer being under allocated in 32bit systems if it receives at least 1Gb as input via `CURLOPT_USERNAME`.