Buffer Underallocation Vulnerability in Base64 Encode Function in curl

CVE-2016-8617 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The base64 encode function in curl before version 7.51.0 is prone to a buffer being under allocated in 32bit systems if it receives at least 1Gb as input via `CURLOPT_USERNAME`.

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