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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-38039: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-38039: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
09/15/2023
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

When curl retrieves an HTTP response, it stores the incoming headers so that they can be accessed later via the libcurl headers API. However, curl did not have a limit in how many or how large headers it would accept in a response, allowing a malicious server to stream an endless series of headers and eventually cause curl to run out of heap memory.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-curl

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