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usn-5891-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2023-02-27 12:34
Modified
2026-04-22 07:37
Summary
curl vulnerabilities
Details

Harry Sintonen discovered that curl incorrectly handled HSTS support when multiple URLs are requested serially. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause curl to use unencrypted connections. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2023-23914)

Harry Sintonen discovered that curl incorrectly handled HSTS support when multiple URLs are requested in parallel. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause curl to use unencrypted connections. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2023-23915)

Patrick Monnerat discovered that curl incorrectly handled memory when processing requests with multi-header compression. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause curl to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2023-23916)

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  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:37:04Z",
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