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.
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade curl | Aug 22, 2024 | May 26, 2023 |
| Apple Osx Curl | — | Upgrade macOS to the latest version | Jul 25, 2023 | Jul 24, 2023 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade curl | Jul 30, 2024 | May 26, 2023 |
| Dell Powerstore Dsa2023366 | — | Upgrade Dell PowerStoreOS to the latest version | Oct 23, 2025 | Oct 5, 2023 |
| Freebsd | — | Upgrade curl | May 20, 2023 | May 19, 2023 |
| Gentoo Linux | — | Upgrade net-misc/curl. | Oct 12, 2023 | May 26, 2023 |
| Redhat_linux | — | No solution exists | Jul 9, 2025 | May 26, 2023 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade libcurl4Upgrade libcurl-develUpgrade curlUpgrade libcurl4-32bitUpgrade libcurl-devel-32bit | May 18, 2023 | May 17, 2023 |
| Vmware Photon_os | — | Use 'tdnf update' to upgrade all packages to the latest version. | Jan 20, 2025 | May 26, 2023 |
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