Double Free Affecting curl package, versions [7.77.0,7.86.0)


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.53% (77th percentile)
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NVD
8.1 high
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Red Hat
7.5 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UNMANAGED-CURL-3085612
  • published 27 Oct 2022
  • disclosed 26 Oct 2022
  • credit Trail of Bits

How to fix?

Upgrade curl to version 7.86.0 or higher.

Overview

curl is a command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Double Free due to flaws in the error/cleanup handling, when using one of the following schemes in the URL for the transfer: dict, gopher, gophers, ldap, ldaps, rtmp, rtmps, telnet.