ALPINE-CVE-2023-23916
ALPINE-CVE-2023-23916
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An allocation of resources without limits or throttling vulnerability exists in curl <v7.88.0 based on the "chained" HTTP compression algorithms, meaning that a server response can be compressed multiple times and potentially with differentalgorithms. The number of acceptable "links" in this "decompression chain" wascapped, but the cap was implemented on a per-header basis allowing a maliciousserver to insert a virtually unlimited number of compression steps simply byusing many headers. The use of such a decompression chain could result in a "malloc bomb", making curl end up spending enormous amounts of allocated heap memory, or trying to and returning out of memory errors.
CVSS 6.5 · Medium · Fix available
- Published
- Updated
Stack: system
Affected products and versions
curl Alpine:v3.14
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: ≥ 7.57.0, < 7.79.1-r5
Update to 7.79.1-r5
curl Alpine:v3.15
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: ≥ 7.57.0, < 7.80.0-r6
Update to 7.80.0-r6
curl Alpine:v3.16
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: ≥ 7.57.0, < 7.83.1-r6
Update to 7.83.1-r6
curl Alpine:v3.17
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: ≥ 7.57.0, < 7.87.0-r2
Update to 7.87.0-r2
curl Alpine:v3.18
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: ≥ 7.57.0, < 7.88.0-r0
Update to 7.88.0-r0
curl Alpine:v3.19
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: ≥ 7.57.0, < 7.88.0-r0
Update to 7.88.0-r0
curl Alpine:v3.20
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: ≥ 7.57.0, < 7.88.0-r0
Update to 7.88.0-r0
curl Alpine:v3.21
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: ≥ 7.57.0, < 7.88.0-r0
Update to 7.88.0-r0
curl Alpine:v3.22
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: ≥ 7.57.0, < 7.88.0-r0
Update to 7.88.0-r0
curl Alpine:v3.23
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: ≥ 7.57.0, < 7.88.0-r0
Update to 7.88.0-r0
curl Alpine:v3.24
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: ≥ 7.57.0, < 7.88.0-r0
Update to 7.88.0-r0