Critical
Security advisory
The 'globbing' feature in curl before version 7.51.0 has a flaw that leads to integer overflow and out-of-bounds read via user controlled input.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2016-8620
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:41 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The 'globbing' feature in curl before version 7.51.0 has a flaw that leads to integer overflow and out-of-bounds read via user controlled input.
osv:CVE-2016-8620
Complete source record
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