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IBM AIX: curl_advisory2 (CVE-2023-23916): Security vulnerabilities in cURL for AIX

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IBM AIX: curl_advisory2 (CVE-2023-23916): Security vulnerabilities in cURL for AIX

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/23/2023
Created
07/27/2023
Added
07/27/2023
Modified
03/12/2024

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • ibm-aix-curl_advisory2

References

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