Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Apr 23, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2016-9594
CVE-2016-9594
Description
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.
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Affected products
4- unspecified/curlv5Range: curl 7.52.1
Patches
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References
6- www.securityfocus.com/bid/95094nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1037528nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161223.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-04nvdThird Party Advisory
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