Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting curl package, versions <7.83.1-r2
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE316-CURL-2938008
- published 30 Jun 2022
- disclosed 7 Jul 2022
Introduced: 30 Jun 2022
CVE-2022-32205 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.16
curl
to version 7.83.1-r2 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream curl
package and not the curl
package as distributed by Alpine
.
See How to fix?
for Alpine:3.16
relevant fixed versions and status.
A malicious server can serve excessive amounts of Set-Cookie:
headers in a HTTP response to curl and curl < 7.84.0 stores all of them. A sufficiently large amount of (big) cookies make subsequent HTTP requests to this, or other servers to which the cookies match, create requests that become larger than the threshold that curl uses internally to avoid sending crazy large requests (1048576 bytes) and instead returns an error.This denial state might remain for as long as the same cookies are kept, match and haven't expired. Due to cookie matching rules, a server on foo.example.com
can set cookies that also would match for bar.example.com
, making it it possible for a "sister server" to effectively cause a denial of service for a sibling site on the same second level domain using this method.
References
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/28
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/41
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-333517.pdf
- https://hackerone.com/reports/1569946
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BEV6BR4MTI3CEWK2YU2HQZUW5FAS3FEY/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202212-01
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220915-0003/
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213488
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5197
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BEV6BR4MTI3CEWK2YU2HQZUW5FAS3FEY/