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 mult…
Medium CVSS 6.5
Summary
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…
In-depth triage
No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).
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Sources
- NVD DATABASE
Original Links
- https://hackerone.com/reports/1826048 Exploit
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00035.html Mailing List
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BQKE6TXYDHOTFHLTBZ5X73GTKI7II5KO/ Mailing List
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-12 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230309-0006/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5365 Third Party Advisory
- https://hackerone.com/reports/1826048 Exploit
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00035.html Mailing List
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BQKE6TXYDHOTFHLTBZ5X73GTKI7II5KO/ Mailing List
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-12 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230309-0006/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5365 Third Party Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html
Timeline
- nvd_ingest NVD