RHSA-2023:5763HighCVSS 8.1

Red Hat Security Advisory: curl security update

Published
October 17, 2023
Last Modified
October 15, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

CVE-2023-38545 →CVE-2023-38546 →

📋 Description

CVE-2023-38545 — curl: heap based buffer overflow in the SOCKS5 proxy handshake CVE-2023-38546 — curl: cookie injection with none file

🎯 Affected products76

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • curl-0:7.76.1-23.el9_2.4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • curl-0:7.76.1-23.el9_2.4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • curl-0:7.76.1-23.el9_2.4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • curl-0:7.76.1-23.el9_2.4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • curl-0:7.76.1-23.el9_2.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • curl-debuginfo-0:7.76.1-23.el9_2.4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • curl-debuginfo-0:7.76.1-23.el9_2.4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • curl-debuginfo-0:7.76.1-23.el9_2.4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • curl-debuginfo-0:7.76.1-23.el9_2.4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • curl-debuginfo-0:7.76.1-23.el9_2.4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • curl-debuginfo-0:7.76.1-23.el9_2.4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • curl-debuginfo-0:7.76.1-23.el9_2.4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • curl-debuginfo-0:7.76.1-23.el9_2.4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • curl-debuginfo-0:7.76.1-23.el9_2.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • curl-debuginfo-0:7.76.1-23.el9_2.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • curl-debugsource-0:7.76.1-23.el9_2.4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • curl-debugsource-0:7.76.1-23.el9_2.4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • curl-debugsource-0:7.76.1-23.el9_2.4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • curl-debugsource-0:7.76.1-23.el9_2.4.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • curl-debugsource-0:7.76.1-23.el9_2.4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • curl-debugsource-0:7.76.1-23.el9_2.4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • curl-debugsource-0:7.76.1-23.el9_2.4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • curl-debugsource-0:7.76.1-23.el9_2.4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • curl-debugsource-0:7.76.1-23.el9_2.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • curl-debugsource-0:7.76.1-23.el9_2.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • curl-minimal-0:7.76.1-23.el9_2.4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • curl-minimal-0:7.76.1-23.el9_2.4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • curl-minimal-0:7.76.1-23.el9_2.4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
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✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Workaround: To avoid this issue, we recommend you do not use `CURLPROXY_SOCKS5_HOSTNAME` proxies with curl. Also do not set a proxy environment variable to socks5h://

🔗 References (5)