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CVE details

CVE-2016-9594

curl before version 7.52.1 is vulnerable to an uninitialized random in libcurl's internal function that returns a good 32bit random value. Having a weak or virtually non-existent random value makes the operations that use it vulnerable.

Score
6.5 medium
Published
2018-04-23
Links
NVD · cve.org

Affected ports (1)

PortPackageVersionStatusMaintainer
ftp/linux-c7-curllinux-c7-curl7.29.0_13unaddressedemulation@FreeBSD.org

VuXML

Template for a VuXML entry

Range taken from the CVE record, check it before committing. make newentry in security/vuxml creates the vid.

  <vuln vid="FIXME (make newentry)">
    <topic>FIXME -- FIXME</topic>
    <affects>
      <package>
	<name>linux-c7-curl</name>
	<range><lt>7.52.1</lt></range>
      </package>
    </affects>
    <description>
      <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
	<p>curl before version 7.52.1 is vulnerable to an uninitialized random in
	libcurl's internal function that returns a good 32bit random value. 
	Having a weak or virtually non-existent random value makes the
	operations that use it vulnerable.</p>
      </body>
    </description>
    <references>
      <cvename>CVE-2016-9594</cvename>
      <url>https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9594</url>
    </references>
    <dates>
      <discovery>2018-04-23</discovery>
      <entry>2026-10-25</entry>
    </dates>
  </vuln>