CVE-2023-28320
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Description
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.
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS score
5.9
(v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Modified
Source identifier
Published
2023-05-26 21:15:15.937000
Last modified
2026-10-23 23:10:00.157000
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