ALPINE-CVE-2023-23916
- Source
- https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-23916
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2023-23916.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2023-23916
- Upstream
- Published
- 2023-02-23T20:15:13.777Z
- Modified
- 2026-07-06T00:32:07.678456304Z
- Severity
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- 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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.
- References