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DEBIAN-CVE-2022-32206

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-32206 PUBLISHED CVSS 6.5 MEDIUM

curl < 7.84.0 supports "chained" HTTP compression algorithms, meaning that a serverresponse can be compressed multiple times and potentially with different algorithms. The number of acceptable "links" in this "decompression chain" was unbounded, allowing a malicious server to insert a virtually unlimited number of compression steps.The use of such a decompression chain could result in a "malloc bomb", makingcurl end up spending enormous amounts of allocated heap memory, or trying toand returning out of memory errors.

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:12curl0
Debian:14curl0
Debian:13curl0

Timeline

  • Jul 7, 2022 CVE Published
  • Oct 15, 2026 CVE Updated
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