Hyped up curl vulnerability falls short of expectations

October 12, 2023 at 10:34AM Curl 8.4.0 has been released to address a high-severity security vulnerability (CVE-2023-38546), which caused concerns about its impact. The release includes fixes for two vulnerabilities: a high-severity heap buffer overflow bug and a low-severity cookie injection flaw. The exploit for the heap buffer overflow bug requires specific configurations and timing, … Read more

How to Scan Your Environment for Vulnerable Versions of Curl

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