Curl and libcurl fix a medium-severity vulnerability

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[TLP:CLEAR] Curl and libcurl fix a medium-severity vulnerability

Curl version 8.9.1 fixes a medium-severity vulnerability in curl and libcurl [1]. Among operating systems, Debian, for example, has released a fix for the sid release in version 8.9.1-1 [2]. Gentoo has curl 8.9.1 available as testing [3].

Curl - out-of-bounds read (CVE-2024-7264)

CVSS 4.8 (Medium)

Allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to crash the application or obtain the contents of the application heap by sending a syntactically incorrect Generalized Time field in ASN.1. To exploit this vulnerability, curl must be built using GnuTLS, Schannel, Secure Transport or mbedTLS [1] [4].

The vulnerability is present in product:

libcurl; >=7.32.0; <=8.9.0

CVSS: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

More information:

CVE-2024-7264 at cve.org, NVD
CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read at cwe.mitre.org

The vulnerability was publicly disclosed 31. 7. 2024.

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By CESNET, z.s.p.o. Michaela Jarošová on 6. 8. 2024.

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[TLP:CLEAR] Curl and libcurl fix a medium-severity vulnerability

Curl - out-of-bounds read (CVE-2024-7264)

CVSS 4.8 (Medium)

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