Published: 23/04/2018 Updated: 07/11/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

CVSS v3 Base Score: 8.1 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 2.2

VMScore: 606

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

curl before version 7.52.1 is vulnerable to an uninitialized random in libcurl's internal function that returns a good 32bit random value. Having a weak or virtually non-existent random value makes the operations that use it vulnerable.

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libcurl's (new) internal function that returns a good 32bit random value was implemented poorly and overwrote the pointer instead of writing the value into the buffer the pointer pointed to This random value is used to generate nonces for Digest and NTLM authentication, for generating boundary strings in HTTP formposts and more Having a weak or v ...

SecurityCenter has recently been discovered to contain several vulnerabilities Four issues in the SC code were discovered during internal testing by Barry Clark, and several third-party libraries were upgraded as part of our internal security process Note that the library vulnerabilities were not fully diagnosed so SecurityCenter is possibly impa ...

CWE-665 https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161223.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9594 https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-04 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037528 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95094 https://nvd.nist.gov https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2016-9594 https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-04

CVE-2016-9594

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