Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libmicrohttpd-debugsource package, versions <1:0.9.73-1.amzn2023.0.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (26th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2023-LIBMICROHTTPDDEBUGSOURCE-11482696
  • published6 Aug 2025
  • disclosed28 Feb 2023

Introduced: 28 Feb 2023

CVE-2023-27371  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2023 libmicrohttpd-debugsource to version 1:0.9.73-1.amzn2023.0.4 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2023-2025-1133.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libmicrohttpd-debugsource package and not the libmicrohttpd-debugsource package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2023 relevant fixed versions and status.

GNU libmicrohttpd before 0.9.76 allows remote DoS (Denial of Service) due to improper parsing of a multipart/form-data boundary in the postprocessor.c MHD_create_post_processor() method. This allows an attacker to remotely send a malicious HTTP POST packet that includes one or more '\0' bytes in a multipart/form-data boundary field, which - assuming a specific heap layout - will result in an out-of-bounds read and a crash in the find_boundary() function.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1