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CVE-2006-1061

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2006-03-21 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in cURL and libcURL 7.15.0 through 7.15.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a TFTP URL (tftp://) with a valid hostname and a long path.

Affected products

• Daniel Stenberg Curl: 7.15.0, 7.15.1, 7.15.2

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-03/1326.html
• http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20060320.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19271
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19335
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19344
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19371
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-19.xml
• http://www.osvdb.org/23982
• http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-March/msg00048.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17154
• http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0016
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1008

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