DEBIAN-CVE-2023-23916

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-23916
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-23916.json
JSON Data
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Published
2023-02-23T20:15:13Z
Modified
2025-09-25T23:28:30.822924Z
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

Debian:11 / 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
7.74.0-1.3+deb11u7

Affected versions

7.*

7.74.0-1.3
7.74.0-1.3+deb11u1
7.74.0-1.3+deb11u2
7.74.0-1.3+deb11u3
7.74.0-1.3+deb11u4
7.74.0-1.3+deb11u5
7.74.0-1.3+deb11u6
7.74.0-1.3+deb11u7~bpo11+1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

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
7.88.1-1

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
7.88.1-1

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
7.88.1-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}