CVE-2016-7167

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Multiple integer overflows in the (1) curl_escape, (2) curl_easy_escape, (3) curl_unescape, and (4) curl_easy_unescape functions in libcurl before 7.50.3 allow attackers to have unspecified impact via a string of length 0xffffffff, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 9.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-190

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Oct 7, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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