CVE-2016-5421 is a high-severity use-after-free vulnerability in libcurl versions prior to 7.50.1, impacting various products including Canonical, Debian, FedoraProject, Haxx, and openSUSE. This flaw, with a CVSS score of 8.1, allows remote attackers to manipulate connection usage or achieve other unspecified impacts with high confidentiality, integrity, and availability consequences, despite requiring high attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
42.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 7.50.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:haxx:libcurl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* | ||
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* | ||
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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