ubuntu-cve-2023-23916
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2023-02-15 00:00
Modified
2026-04-22 07:45
Summary
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
6.5 (Medium)
N/A (UNKNOWN)
References
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"7.58.0-2ubuntu3.1",
"7.58.0-2ubuntu3.2",
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"7.58.0-2ubuntu3.6",
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"7.58.0-2ubuntu3.14",
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"7.58.0-2ubuntu3.17",
"7.58.0-2ubuntu3.18",
"7.58.0-2ubuntu3.19",
"7.58.0-2ubuntu3.20",
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"7.66.0-1ubuntu1",
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"availability": "No subscription required",
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{
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},
{
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},
{
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"name": "curl",
"purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/curl@7.81.0-1ubuntu1.8?arch=source\u0026distro=jammy"
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}
],
"aliases": [],
"details": "An allocation of resources without limits or throttling vulnerability exists in curl \u003cv7.88.0 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.",
"id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2023-23916",
"modified": "2026-04-22T07:45:15Z",
"published": "2023-02-15T00:00:00Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-23916"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2023-23916.html"
},
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5891-1"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-23916"
}
],
"related": [
"USN-5891-1"
],
"schema_version": "1.7.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
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"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
},
{
"score": "medium",
"type": "Ubuntu"
}
],
"upstream": [
"CVE-2023-23916"
]
}
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