CVE-2016-7167

critical
Published 2016-10-07 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
9.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-7167

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7167.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20160914.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201609-19

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201609-18

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
arch archfixed7.50.3-1
debian debianbookwormfixed7.51.0-1
debian debianbullseyefixed7.51.0-1
debian debianforkyfixed7.51.0-1
debian debiansidfixed7.51.0-1
debian debiantrixiefixed7.51.0-1
fedora fedora23affected
fedora fedora24affected
fedora fedora25affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
haxxlibcurl{"endIncluding":"7.50.2"}

References

CWEs

CWE-190

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.