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ALPINE-CVE-2023-28320

ALPINE-CVE-2023-28320 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.900000095367432 MEDIUM

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 application might therefore crash or otherwise misbehave.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.1
5.900000095367432
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Alpine:v3.17curl7.46.0-r0, 7.45.0-r1, 7.45.0-r0
Alpine:v3.23curl7.53.1-r2, 7.53.1-r1, 7.53.1-r0
Alpine:v3.18curl7.85.0-r0, 7.21.2-r0, 7.21.3-r0
Alpine:v3.16curl0, 7.19.2-r0, 7.19.4-r0
Alpine:v3.20curl7.53.1-r0, 0, 7.19.2-r0
Alpine:v3.15curl0, 8.0.1-r0, 7.80.0-r6
Alpine:v3.19curl7.80.0-r0, 7.59.0-r1, 7.79.1-r0
Alpine:v3.22curl7.21.7-r1, 7.19.2-r1, 7.19.5-r0
Alpine:v3.21curl7.19.2-r0, 8.0.1-r3, 8.0.1-r2

Timeline

  • May 26, 2023 CVE Published
  • Dec 3, 2025 CVE Updated
  • Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch
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