Race Condition Affecting libcurl-devel package, versions <7.66.0-150200.4.57.1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.66% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-LIBCURLDEVEL-5561990
  • published18 May 2023
  • disclosed17 May 2023

Introduced: 17 May 2023

CVE-2023-28320  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 libcurl-devel to version 7.66.0-150200.4.57.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libcurl-devel package and not the libcurl-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.3 relevant fixed versions and status.

A denial of service vulnerability exists in curl <v8.1.0 in the way libcurl provides several different backends for resolving host names, selected at build time. If it is built to use the synchronous resolver, it allows name resolves to time-out slow operations using alarm() and siglongjmp(). When doing this, libcurl used a global buffer that was not mutex protected and a multi-threaded application might therefore crash or otherwise misbehave.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1