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HistorySep 15, 2023 - 4:15 a.m.

CVE-2023-38039

2023-09-1504:15:10
Alpine Linux Development Team
security.alpinelinux.org
11
http
response
storage
vulnerability
curl
endless series
headers
malicious server
heap memory
unix

0.009 Low

EPSS

Percentile

82.9%

When curl retrieves an HTTP response, it stores the incoming headers so that
they can be accessed later via the libcurl headers API.

However, curl did not have a limit in how many or how large headers it would
accept in a response, allowing a malicious server to stream an endless series
of headers and eventually cause curl to run out of heap memory.