CVE-2022-32206

NameCVE-2022-32206
Descriptioncurl < 7.84.0 supports "chained" HTTP compression algorithms, meaning that a serverresponse 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", makingcurl end up spending enormous amounts of allocated heap memory, or trying toand returning out of memory errors.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-3085-1, DSA-5197-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
curl (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)7.38.0-4+deb8u28fixed
stretch (security)7.52.1-5+deb9u16fixed
stretch (lts), stretch7.52.1-5+deb9u22fixed
buster, buster (lts)7.64.0-4+deb10u10fixed
buster (security)7.64.0-4+deb10u9fixed
bullseye7.74.0-1.3+deb11u13fixed
bullseye (security)7.74.0-1.3+deb11u14fixed
bookworm7.88.1-10+deb12u8fixed
bookworm (security)7.88.1-10+deb12u5fixed
sid, trixie8.11.0-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
curlsourcejessie(not affected)
curlsourcestretch(not affected)
curlsourcebuster7.64.0-4+deb10u3DLA-3085-1
curlsourcebullseye7.74.0-1.3+deb11u2DSA-5197-1
curlsource(unstable)7.84.0-1

Notes

https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2022-32206.html
Introduced by: https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/dbcced8e32b50c068ac297106f0502ee200a1ebd (curl-7_57_0)
Fixed by: https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/3a09fbb7f264c67c438d01a30669ce325aa508e2 (curl-7_84_0)
[stretch] - curl <not-affected> (The vulnerable code was introduced later)
[jessie] - curl <not-affected> (The vulnerable code was introduced later)

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