CVE-2023-38545

Name
CVE-2023-38545
Description
This flaw makes curl overflow a heap based buffer in the SOCKS5 proxy handshake. When curl is asked to pass along the host name to the SOCKS5 proxy to allow that to resolve the address instead of it getting done by curl itself, the maximum length that host name can be is 255 bytes. If the host name is detected to be longer, curl switches to local name resolving and instead passes on the resolved address only. Due to this bug, the local variable that means "let the host resolve the name" could get the wrong value during a slow SOCKS5 handshake, and contrary to the intention, copy the too long host name to the target buffer instead of copying just the resolved address there. The target buffer being a heap based buffer, and the host name coming from the URL that curl has been told to operate with.
NVD Severity
unknown
Other trackers
Mailing lists
Exploits
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
MISC https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2023-38545.html
MISC https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231027-0009/
MISC https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OGMXNRNSJ4ETDK6FRNU3J7SABXPWCHSQ/
https://www.secpod.com/blog/high-severity-heap-buffer-overflow-vulnerability/
support@hackerone.com https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214057
support@hackerone.com https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214058
support@hackerone.com https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214063
support@hackerone.com https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214036
support@hackerone.com http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jan/34
support@hackerone.com http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jan/37
support@hackerone.com http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jan/38
support@hackerone.com https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240201-0005/
support@hackerone.com https://forum.vmssoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=8868
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 https://github.com/UTsweetyfish/CVE-2023-38545
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 https://github.com/bcdannyboy/CVE-2023-38545
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 https://github.com/dbrugman/CVE-2023-38545-POC

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:haxx:libcurl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* libcurl >= 7.69.0 < 8.4.0

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status