CVE-2024-6874

NameCVE-2024-6874
Descriptionlibcurl's URL API function [curl_url_get()](https://curl.se/libcurl/c/curl_url_get.html) offers punycode conversions, to and from IDN. Asking to convert a name that is exactly 256 bytes, libcurl ends up reading outside of a stack based buffer when built to use the *macidn* IDN backend. The conversion function then fills up the provided buffer exactly - but does not null terminate the string. This flaw can lead to stack contents accidently getting returned as part of the converted string.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs1076996

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+deb11u11fixed
bookworm7.88.1-10+deb12u7fixed
bookworm (security)7.88.1-10+deb12u5fixed
trixie, sid8.9.1-2fixed

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
curlsourcejessie(not affected)
curlsourcestretch(not affected)
curlsourcebuster(not affected)
curlsourcebullseye(not affected)
curlsourcebookworm(not affected)
curlsource(unstable)8.9.0-11076996

Notes

[bookworm] - curl <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[bullseye] - curl <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2024-6874.html
Introduced in: https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/add22feeef07858307be5722e1869e082554290e (curl-8_8_0)
Fixed by: https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/686d54baf1df6e0775898f484d1670742898b3b2 (curl-8_9_0)
[buster] - curl <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[stretch] - curl <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[jessie] - curl <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)

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