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CVE-2022-32206

Updated on 07 Jul 2022

Severity

6.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
6.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE ID
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

curl < 7.84.0 supports “chained” HTTP compression algorithms, meaning that a serverresponse can be compressed multiple times and potentially with different algorithms. The number of acceptable “links” in this “decompression chain” was unbounded, allowing a malicious server to insert a virtually unlimited number of compression steps.The use of such a decompression chain could result in a “malloc bomb”, makingcurl end up spending enormous amounts of allocated heap memory, or trying toand returning out of memory errors.

Details

Affected product:
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 6 ELS , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CloudLinux 6 ELS , Debian 10 ELS , Oracle Linux 6 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS
Affected packages:
curl @ 7.64.0 (+9 more)
curl < 7.84.0 supports “chained” HTTP compression algorithms, meaning that a serverresponse can be compressed multiple times and potentially with different algorithms. The number of acceptable “links” in this “decompression chain” was unbounded, allowing a malicious server to insert a virtually unlimited number of compression steps.The use of such a decompression chain could result in a “malloc bomb”, makingcurl end up spending enormous amounts of allocated heap memory, or trying toand returning out of memory errors.

Fixes