CVE-2023-38545

CVE Details

Release Date:

2023-10-11

Description

This flaw makes curl overflow a heap based buffer in the SOCKS5 proxy handshake. When curl is asked to pass along the host name to the SOCKS5 proxy to allow that to resolve the address instead of it getting done by curl itself, the maximum length that host name can be is 255 bytes. If the host name is detected to be longer, curl switches to local name resolving and instead passes on the resolved address only. Due to this bug, the local variable that means \let

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CVSS v3.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	7.5	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	High
Privileges Required:	None	User Interaction:	Required
Scope:	Unchanged	Confidentiality Impact:	High
Integrity Impact:	High	Availability Impact:	High

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 9 (curl)	ELSA-2023-5763	2023-10-18
Oracle Linux version 9 (curl)	ELSA-2023-6745	2023-11-16

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