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Use After Free

CVE-2016-5421

High
8.1/10

Summary

Use-after-free vulnerability in curl and libcurl 7.32.0 to and including 7.50.0 allows attackers to control which connection is used or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

  • HIGH
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-416 - Use After Free

Use-after-free (UaF) vulnerability occurs when the application is using a pointer to memory that has been freed. Any attempt to read/write to a buffer after it is de-allocated allows memory corruption, sensitive information exposure, and can potentially lead to arbitrary code execution.

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  • Published