DEBIAN-CVE-2023-38039

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-38039
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-38039.json
JSON Data
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Upstream
Published
2023-09-15T04:15:10Z
Modified
2025-09-25T23:29:43.132486Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:12 / curl

Package

Name
curl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/curl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
7.88.1-10+deb12u3

Affected versions

7.*

7.88.1-10
7.88.1-10+deb12u1~bpo11+1
7.88.1-10+deb12u1
7.88.1-10+deb12u2
7.88.1-10+deb12u3~bpo11+1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / curl

Package

Name
curl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/curl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.3.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / curl

Package

Name
curl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/curl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.3.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}