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CVE-2023-28320

A denial of service vulnerability exists in curl <v8.1.0 in the way libcurl provides several different backends for resolving host names, selected at build time. If it is built to use the synchronous resolver, it allows name resolves to time-out slow operations using `alarm()` and `siglongjmp()`. When doing this, libcurl used a global buffer that was not mutex protected and a multi-threaded…

Severity
Medium 5.9
Published
26 May 2023
Last changed
23 Oct 2026
Added to UpHeron
21 Oct 2026
Fixed in
8.1.0
Sources
NVD

Affected software

SoftwareAffected versions
curlServers and applications · cpe:a:haxx:curl
  • Every version before 8.1.0

References

  • NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-28320
  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-28320