CVE-2016-9594

Description

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.

References

https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-04

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47

https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161223.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9594

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037528

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95094

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3