CVE-2016-8622: The Curl Project curl

Integer overflow in curl

CVSS 3.7 LowEPSS 0.047 · 91st percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 31 Jul 2018, 21:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
The Curl Project	curl	affected 7.51.0

Identifiers

CVE-2016-8622

CNA

redhat

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-122 · CWE-190

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
3.7	Low	3.0	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N	CNA (redhat)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.047, the 91st percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 31 Jul 2018. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558 vendor-advisoryredhat
curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102H.html confirm
www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21 confirm
www.securitytracker.com/id/1037192 vdb-entrysectrack
www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html confirm
www.securityfocus.com/bid/94105 vdb-entrybid
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486 vendor-advisoryredhat
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47 vendor-advisorygentoo
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8622 confirm

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