cve/2016/CVE-2016-9586.md

### [CVE-2016-9586](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9586)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Product&message=curl&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Version&message=n%2Fa&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Vulnerability&message=CWE-122&color=brighgreen)

### Description

curl before version 7.52.0 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when doing a large floating point output in libcurl's implementation of the printf() functions. If there are any application that accepts a format string from the outside without necessary input filtering, it could allow remote attacks.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html

#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
- https://github.com/fokypoky/places-list