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 Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 6.5
- CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alma_linux | — | Upgrade libcurl-develUpgrade curlUpgrade libcurlUpgrade curl-minimalUpgrade libcurl-minimal | Mar 14, 2023 | Feb 23, 2023 |
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade curl | Aug 22, 2024 | Feb 23, 2023 |
| Amazon Linux Ami 2 | — | Upgrade curl-debuginfoUpgrade libcurlUpgrade curlUpgrade libcurl-devel | Mar 7, 2023 | Feb 23, 2023 |
| Amazon_linux | — | Upgrade curl | Apr 21, 2023 | Feb 16, 2023 |
| Amazon_linux_2023 | — | Upgrade libcurlUpgrade libcurl-develUpgrade libcurl-minimal-debuginfoUpgrade curlUpgrade curl-minimalUpgrade libcurl-minimalUpgrade curl-debuginfoUpgrade libcurl-debuginfoUpgrade curl-debugsourceUpgrade curl-minimal-debuginfo | Feb 17, 2025 | Feb 15, 2023 |
| Centos_linux | — | Upgrade libcurl-minimalUpgrade curlUpgrade curl-minimalUpgrade libcurl-develUpgrade libcurl-debuginfoUpgrade libcurlUpgrade curl-debugsourceUpgrade libcurl-minimal-debuginfoUpgrade curl-minimal-debuginfoUpgrade curl-debuginfo | Mar 9, 2023 | Feb 23, 2023 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade curl | Feb 27, 2023 | Feb 23, 2023 |
| Freebsd | — | Upgrade curl | Mar 6, 2023 | Mar 5, 2023 |
| Gentoo Linux | — | Upgrade net-misc/curl. | Oct 12, 2023 | Feb 23, 2023 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp11 | — | Upgrade curlUpgrade libcurl | Jul 5, 2023 | Feb 23, 2023 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp8 | — | Upgrade libcurlUpgrade curlUpgrade libcurl-devel | Apr 13, 2023 | Feb 23, 2023 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp9 | — | Upgrade libcurlUpgrade curl | May 10, 2023 | Feb 23, 2023 |
| Ibm Aix | — | Apply the fix or workaround for curl_advisory2 | Jul 27, 2023 | Feb 23, 2023 |
| Nutanix Ahv | — | Upgrade Nutanix AHV to the latest version | Jun 5, 2026 | Sep 4, 2023 |
| Oracle_linux | — | Upgrade libcurlUpgrade libcurl-develUpgrade curlUpgrade curl-minimalUpgrade libcurl-minimal | Mar 8, 2023 | Feb 15, 2023 |
| Redhat_linux | — | Upgrade libcurlUpgrade libcurl-debuginfoNo solution existsUpgrade curl-minimal-debuginfoUpgrade curl-debuginfoUpgrade curl-minimalUpgrade curl-debugsourceUpgrade libcurl-minimalUpgrade libcurl-develUpgrade curlUpgrade libcurl-minimal-debuginfo | Mar 9, 2023 | Feb 23, 2023 |
| Rocky_linux | — | Upgrade libcurl-debuginfoUpgrade curl-debuginfoUpgrade libcurl-develUpgrade curlUpgrade libcurlUpgrade curl-debugsourceUpgrade libcurl-minimal-debuginfoUpgrade libcurl-minimal | Mar 12, 2024 | Feb 23, 2023 |
| Splunk | — | Upgrade Splunk Enterprise to version 8.1.14Upgrade Splunk Enterprise to version 8.2.12Upgrade Splunk Enterprise to version 9.0.6Upgrade Splunk Enterprise to version 9.1.1Upgrade Splunk Enterprise to version 9.0.5Upgrade Splunk Enterprise to version 8.2.11Upgrade Splunk Universal Forwarder to version 9.0.5Upgrade Splunk Universal Forwarder to version 8.2.12Upgrade Splunk Universal Forwarder to version 9.0.6Upgrade Splunk Universal Forwarder to version 8.1.14Upgrade Splunk Universal Forwarder to version 8.2.11Upgrade Splunk Universal Forwarder to version 9.1.1 | Sep 30, 2025 | Feb 23, 2023 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade libcurl-devel-32bitUpgrade libcurl4Upgrade curlUpgrade libcurl4-32bitUpgrade libcurl-devel | Feb 16, 2023 | Feb 15, 2023 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade curlUpgrade libcurl3-gnutlsUpgrade libcurl4Upgrade libcurl3-nss | Mar 22, 2023 | Feb 23, 2023 |
| Vmware Photon_os | — | Use 'tdnf update' to upgrade all packages to the latest version. | Jan 20, 2025 | Feb 23, 2023 |
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