AZL-13653
See a problem?- Import Source
- https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-13653.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/AZL-13653
- Upstream
- Published
- 2023-02-23T20:15:13Z
- Modified
- 2026-04-01T05:07:44.569637Z
- 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
- CVE-2023-23916 affecting package curl for versions less than 7.88.1-1
- 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.
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