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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-28320: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 26, 2023
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Jun 18, 2026

Description

A denial of service vulnerability exists in curl <v8.1.0 in the way libcurl provides several different backends for resolving host names, selected at build time. If it is built to use the synchronous resolver, it allows name resolves to time-out slow operations using `alarm()` and `siglongjmp()`. When doing this, libcurl used a global buffer that was not mutex protected and a multi-threaded application might therefore crash or otherwise misbehave.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-curl
Title
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