Servers and applications
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
| Software | Affected versions |
|---|---|
curlServers and applications · cpe:a:haxx:curl |
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