cURL -- Escape and unescape integer overflows

The cURL project reports

The four libcurl functions curl_escape(), curl_easy_escape(),
curl_unescape and curl_easy_unescape perform string URL percent
escaping and unescaping. They accept custom string length inputs
in signed integer arguments.
The provided string length arguments were not properly checked
and due to arithmetic in the functions, passing in the length
0xffffffff (2^32-1 or UINT_MAX or even just -1) would end up
causing an allocation of zero bytes of heap memory that curl
would attempt to write gigabytes of data into.