What is CVE-2016-8619?

CVE-2016-8619 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Haxx Curl, classified under Use After Free. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2018-08-01.

How severe is CVE-2016-8619?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

3 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

CVE-2016-8619

The function `read_data()` in security.c in curl before version 7.51.0 is vulnerable to memory double free.

Vulnerability class: Use-After-Free

EPSS: 0.050 (91.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)

What is CVE-2016-8619?: CVE-2016-8619 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Haxx Curl, classified under Use After Free. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2018-08-01.
How severe is CVE-2016-8619?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.
Is CVE-2016-8619 known to be exploited?: 3 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.