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.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 5.9
- CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Linux | alpine-linux-upgrade-curl | Aug 22, 2024 | May 26, 2023 | |
| Apple Osx Curl | apple-osx-upgrade-latest | Jul 25, 2023 | May 26, 2023 | |
| Debian | debian-upgrade-curl | Jul 30, 2024 | May 26, 2023 | |
| Dell Powerstore Dsa2023366 | dell-powerstoreos-upgrade-latest | Oct 23, 2025 | Oct 5, 2023 | |
| Freebsd | freebsd-upgrade-package-curl | May 20, 2023 | May 19, 2023 | |
| Gentoo Linux | gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-misc-curl | Oct 12, 2023 | May 26, 2023 | |
| Redhat_linux | no-fix-redhat-rpm-package | Jul 9, 2025 | May 26, 2023 | |
| Suse | — | suse-upgrade-curlsuse-upgrade-libcurl-develsuse-upgrade-libcurl-devel-32bitsuse-upgrade-libcurl4suse-upgrade-libcurl4-32bit | May 18, 2023 | May 17, 2023 |
| Vmware Photon_os | vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf | Jan 20, 2025 | May 26, 2023 |
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