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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2023-38039: curl: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 15, 2023
Added
Oct 12, 2023
Modified
Mar 31, 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.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-misc-curl
Title
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