[Secure-testing-team] Bug#848958: curl: CVE-2016-9586: printf floating point buffer overflow

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: curl
Version: 7.51.0-1
Severity: important
Tags: security patch upstream fixed-upstream
Control: found -1 7.38.0-4

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for curl.

CVE-2016-9586[0]:
printf floating point buffer overflow

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9586
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9586
[1] https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161221A.html
[2] https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/3ab3c16db6a5674f53cf23d56512a405fde0b2c9

Regards,
Salvatore