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CVE-2022-32206

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CVE-2022-32206

Published: Jul 7, 2022

Modified: May 5, 2025

PUBLISHED

Description

curl < 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.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

https://github.com/curl/curl

affected
Fixed in 7.84.0

Weaknesses (CWE)

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