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.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Heap-based Buffer Overflow in the SOCKS5
proxy handshake process when the hostname is longer than the target buffer and larger than 255 bytes.
The local variable socks5_resolve_local
could get the wrong value during a slow SOCKS5 handshake.
Since the code wrongly thinks it should pass on the hostname, even though the hostname is too long to fit, the memory copy can overflow the allocated target buffer.
This is only exploitable if the SOCKS5 handshake is slow enough to trigger a local variable bug and the client uses a hostname longer than the download buffer.
Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system under certain conditions.
Note:
An overflow is only possible in applications that don't set CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE
or set it smaller than 65541.
Since the curl tool sets CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE
to 100kB by default, it is not vulnerable unless the user sets the rate limiting to a rate smaller than 65541 bytes/second.
The options that cause SOCKS5 with remote hostname to be used in libcurl
:
CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE
set to type CURLPROXY_SOCKS5_HOSTNAME
, or:
CURLOPT_PROXY
or CURLOPT_PRE_PROXY
set to use the scheme socks5h://
One of the proxy environment variables can be set to use the socks5h://
scheme. For example, http_proxy
, HTTPS_PROXY
or ALL_PROXY
.
The options that cause SOCKS5 with remote hostname to be used in the curl
tool:
--socks5-hostname
, --proxy
or --preproxy
set to use the scheme socks5h://
Environment variables as described in the libcurl section.
Changelog:
2023-10-04: Initial publication
2023-10-11: Published updated information, including CWE, CVSS, official references and affected versions range.