CVE-2022-32206: HTTP compression denial of service
Medium
Vulnerability Details
curl supports "chained" HTTP compression algorithms, meaning that a server response 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", making curl end up spending enormous amounts of allocated heap memory, or trying to and returning out of memory errors.
## Impact
Denial of service
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- Report ID: 1614330
- State: Closed
- Substate: resolved
- Upvotes: 8