CVE-2016-8618

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

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-416 CWE-415

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jul 31, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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