CVE-2023-23916

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-23916
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-23916.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-23916
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2023-02-23T20:15:13.777Z
Modified
2026-03-20T04:17:43.507995Z
Severity
  • 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

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

Affected packages

Git / github.com/curl/curl

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/curl/curl
Events
Introduced
62c07b5743490ce373910f469abc8cdc759bec2b
Fixed
3027611ca6d4cc5510d2d0fccc3e5a074e09a2fb
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "7.57.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "7.88.0"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
curl-7_57_0
curl-7_58_0
curl-7_59_0
curl-7_60_0
curl-7_61_0
curl-7_61_1
curl-7_62_0
curl-7_63_0
curl-7_64_0
curl-7_64_1
curl-7_65_0
curl-7_65_1
curl-7_65_2
curl-7_65_3
curl-7_66_0
curl-7_67_0
curl-7_68_0
curl-7_69_0
curl-7_69_1
curl-7_70_0
curl-7_71_0
curl-7_71_1
curl-7_72_0
curl-7_73_0
curl-7_74_0
curl-7_75_0
curl-7_76_0
curl-7_76_1
curl-7_77_0
curl-7_78_0
curl-7_79_0
curl-7_79_1
curl-7_80_0
curl-7_81_0
curl-7_82_0
curl-7_83_0
curl-7_83_1
curl-7_84_0
curl-7_85_0
curl-7_86_0
curl-7_87_0

Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "36"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "10.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "11.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "8.2.0"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "8.2.12"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "9.0.0"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "9.0.6"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "9.1.0"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-23916.json"