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.

• CWE-665
• CWE-665

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95094Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037528Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9594Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161223.htmlVendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47Third Party Advisory
• https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-04Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95094Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037528Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9594Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161223.htmlVendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47Third Party Advisory
• https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-04Third Party Advisory

Published

Apr 23, 2018

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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