vulnerability

Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2023-27537: Medium priority package update for curl

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 20, 2023
Added
Feb 17, 2025
Modified
Jul 4, 2025

Description

A double free vulnerability exists in libcurl <8.0.0 when sharing HSTS data between separate "handles". This sharing was introduced without considerations for do this sharing across separate threads but there was no indication of this fact in the documentation. Due to missing mutexes or thread locks, two threads sharing the same HSTS data could end up doing a double-free or use-after-free.

Solutions

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