vulnerability
OS X update for curl (CVE-2023-38039)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Sep 15, 2023 | Jan 23, 2024 | Mar 27, 2026 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 15, 2023
Added
Jan 23, 2024
Modified
Mar 27, 2026
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.
Solutions
apple-osx-upgrade-12_7_3apple-osx-upgrade-13_6_4apple-osx-upgrade-14_2
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