October 12, 2023 at 09:59AM The recently fixed vulnerabilities in the command-line tool curl and the libcurl library require security teams to identify and remediate impacted systems. The vulnerabilities can only be exploited under specific conditions. Organizations should scan their environment using software analysis tools to assess which systems are using curl and libcurl. Additionally, … Read more
October 11, 2023 at 12:06PM Patches have been released for a critical memory corruption vulnerability in the cURL data transfer project. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-38545, affects the SOCKS5 proxy handshake process in cURL, allowing remote exploitation in certain configurations. The bug can lead to heap buffer overflow, and affected versions are 7.69.0 to 8.3.0. … Read more
October 10, 2023 at 10:33AM Curl version 8.4.0 is set to be released tomorrow, addressing two security flaws. One of the flaws is considered the worst security flaw in curl in a long time. The update will address CVE-2023-38545, affecting both libcurl and the curl tool, and CVE-2023-38546, affecting libcurl only. The update does not … Read more